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VLC 3.0 Media Player release

33 points by XzetaU8 9y ago

ktpsns 9y ago
Great! VLC is one of the few desktop codes I use for decades now and it replaced Foobar2000 and Winamp, which were my previous favourites. So glad they also have a great mobile user interface (which is great on both Android and iOS). They can take the liberty to do that because VLC has a clean architecture with frontend-backend seperation. There are VLC frontends for the terminal (ncurses, asciiart), there used to be the wxWidgets one which is now Qt, there is a web server frontend, and all this is built into regular VLC binaries (as downloadable from the website or from your package manager) so it works out of the box.
- stryk 9y ago
  It's also pretty great on Windows 10 Phone, here's hoping that version gets the 3.0 upgrade too.
dspillett 9y ago
The official page (https://www.videolan.org/ https://www.videolan.org/) doesn't list it as released yet ("VLC 3.0.0 is tagged. Expect a release in the next 3 days... (if no big issue arise)") - so it seems to be in a "final final release candidate" state. I'll be waiting at least the day or few and upgrading when it is fully released.
- thinkMOAR 9y ago
  ah okay, that explains why check for updates on mac reports 2.2.8 as latest I'll have a wait too.
- okket 9y ago
  The title should include an 'upcoming' or so to make it less confusing. The changelog is impressive though.
overcast 9y ago
Does it let me open multiple windows on MacOS yet? For whatever reason, the latest update of the os, forces all MP4 files to "convert" in quicktime. So I had to switch up to VLC. One window at a time is horrible though.
- Garvey 9y ago
  Not sure about Mac but there's an option for that in the windows version at least. Tools -> Preferences -> Playlist and Instances "Allow only one instance" and "Use only one instance when started from file manager", uncheck both to allow more than one window at a time all the time.
  - overcast 9y ago
    Yeh that doesn't exist under MacOS.
thresh 9y ago
It's not released yet - and the article in question links to our development server. I've disabled all access to nightlies for win32/win64/mac for now since those binaries will not get update checks/will not be updated in a sane fashion. You should not be using them. We're still working on a VLC 3.0 release, and will announce it when it's ready and our mirrors pick up all the binaries. Please have patience.
jrimbault 9y ago
I've been using mpv on linux and windows for the past year, mostly because I can launch it with an url and it will use youtube-dl behind the scenes to open it. I'll take a look, see what this new version of vlc is capable of.
- jbk 9y ago
  VLC supports Youtube URL since a long time.
  - xori 9y ago
    So long as you didn't seek.
  - jrimbault 9y ago
    As said xori, VLC works beautifully with a lot of things/streams, but has quirks I've not encountered with youtube-dl (which works with a number of sites other than youtube)
jbk 9y ago
(VLC dev here) VLC 3.0 is not released, no. The core code is tagged, but the release will not happen before a couple of days.
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33 points by XzetaU8 9y ago

Great! VLC is one of the few desktop codes I use for decades now and it replaced Foobar2000 and Winamp, which were my previous favourites. So glad they also have a great mobile user interface (which is great on both Android and iOS). They can take the liberty to do that because VLC has a clean architecture with frontend-backend seperation. There are VLC frontends for the terminal (ncurses, asciiart), there used to be the wxWidgets one which is now Qt, there is a web server frontend, and all this is built into regular VLC binaries (as downloadable from the website or from your package manager) so it works out of the box.

stryk 9y ago
It's also pretty great on Windows 10 Phone, here's hoping that version gets the 3.0 upgrade too.

dspillett 9y ago

The official page (https://www.videolan.org/ https://www.videolan.org/) doesn't list it as released yet ("VLC 3.0.0 is tagged. Expect a release in the next 3 days... (if no big issue arise)") - so it seems to be in a "final final release candidate" state. I'll be waiting at least the day or few and upgrading when it is fully released.

thinkMOAR 9y ago
ah okay, that explains why check for updates on mac reports 2.2.8 as latest I'll have a wait too.
okket 9y ago
The title should include an 'upcoming' or so to make it less confusing. The changelog is impressive though.

overcast 9y ago

Does it let me open multiple windows on MacOS yet? For whatever reason, the latest update of the os, forces all MP4 files to "convert" in quicktime. So I had to switch up to VLC. One window at a time is horrible though.

Garvey 9y ago
Not sure about Mac but there's an option for that in the windows version at least. Tools -> Preferences -> Playlist and Instances "Allow only one instance" and "Use only one instance when started from file manager", uncheck both to allow more than one window at a time all the time.
- overcast 9y ago
  Yeh that doesn't exist under MacOS.

thresh 9y ago

It's not released yet - and the article in question links to our development server. I've disabled all access to nightlies for win32/win64/mac for now since those binaries will not get update checks/will not be updated in a sane fashion. You should not be using them. We're still working on a VLC 3.0 release, and will announce it when it's ready and our mirrors pick up all the binaries. Please have patience.

jrimbault 9y ago

I've been using mpv on linux and windows for the past year, mostly because I can launch it with an url and it will use youtube-dl behind the scenes to open it. I'll take a look, see what this new version of vlc is capable of.

jbk 9y ago
VLC supports Youtube URL since a long time.
- xori 9y ago
  So long as you didn't seek.
- jrimbault 9y ago
  As said xori, VLC works beautifully with a lot of things/streams, but has quirks I've not encountered with youtube-dl (which works with a number of sites other than youtube)

jbk 9y ago

(VLC dev here) VLC 3.0 is not released, no. The core code is tagged, but the release will not happen before a couple of days.

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