VLC Launches VLC Media Player v2.0: A Major Upgrade

VideoLAN has finally rolled out its latest VLC Media Player version 2.0. The VLC 2.0 brings all new features and new UI for Windows and Mac users. Its a major upgrade for VLC with faster decoding on multi-core GPU and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, HD and 10bits codecs etc.


VLC Media Player v2.0
Mac will see a completely redesigned Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces which make VLC easier than ever to use. Windows users will have Blu-Ray playback support as an experimental feature. The VLC version 2.0 has codename "Twoflower" and comes with a rendering pipeline for video, better quality subtitles and new filters for enhancing video. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.

It has rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU. Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits. New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2. New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters. New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
For Mac users it will available in 2 colours, Lion Grey and QTX Black and will support more extension and better Lion integration. Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules. Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).

Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM. Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs. Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp. Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support. CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding. New resamplers for higher quality audio. New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters. Simplification of the audio core for faster processing. New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

VLC Media Player version 2.0 is available for all Windows OS, Linux and Mac versions OS X 10.6 and 10.7, OS X 10.5 (Intel) and OS X 10.5 (PowerPC). You can download using direct links below or visit official vlc page for more info.

Download Link VLC Media Player Version 2.0:
vlc-2.0.0-win32.exe (for Windows OS, 21 MB)
vlc-2.0.0-intel64.dmg (for MAC OS X 10.6+, 25.4 MB)

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