VLC 1.0 Released

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-08-2009, 17:17

Why did you wait for 1.0 to use it Lemur? It's been fully fuctional (as far as I can tell) for ages.

**Lemur** · 07-08-2009, 21:18

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Why did you wait for 1.0 to use it Lemur? It's been fully fuctional (as far as I can tell) for ages.

I was using it back in the command-line days, so it's not as though I'm unfamiliar with the software. Frankly, I found the interface too kludgy, so I put it on a shelf and only whipped it out when there were files that didn't want to play nice.

Now it's all polished and pretty and I love it with little teddy bear hearts and sparkly fairy magic and unicorn love love love.

As for library management, I don't use it for music, just video, and I organize my educational materials by folder.

**Beskar** · 07-08-2009, 21:27

Could you screenshot version 1? My biggest complaint is the klunky interface.

As for educational material, I don't put that on the library either.

**Lemur** · 07-08-2009, 21:50

Sure, Beskar. Here's the preferences pane open next to the media player itself.

**Beskar** · 07-08-2009, 21:54

That does look far better. I am used to it being like this and it was a pain.

However, if it is good, I retract all my previous negative statements.

**Beskar** · 07-08-2009, 22:18

I will be honest, there are some nice improvements over previous versions I have used. As for skin, if it is easy to do, I might skin one myself to get it just right.

A couple of flaws -
It can't tell that ten is ten, hundred is hundred, etc. (For instance, I loaded a folder of mine up and the first three it played was 1, 10, 100 then 2, etc)
Lack of Library means I have to trawl through my folder system opposed to having them all laid out in front of me.
Some others are closer to pet pevs, etc.

**Lemur** · 07-09-2009, 22:07

Ars Technica gives VLC a little write-up.

The program offers support for playing practically every kind of video content in existence and has an exhaustive feature set that includes many advanced capabilities. [...] VLC can be used for everything from serving up streaming video across your network to reencoding video files. It's a remarkably powerful tool with a long history of delivering value to users. The new version is available for download from the project's website, and we salute the developers for finally hitting the 1.0 milestone.