[videolan-announce] VLC media player 0.9.3 and a Call for Windows developers.
Christophe Mutricy
xtophe at videolan.org
Sat Sep 27 01:26:45 CEST 2008
Dear VideoLAN users,
On the heels of 0.9.2 the VideoLAN team presents version 0.9.3, the
first bugfix release of the 0.9 series. We are also putting a call
out for new Windows developers for our team.
== 0.9.3 improvements ==
Some of the improvements from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3 include:
* Fixed sensitivity of the Windows Fullscreen controller
* Major performance improvements for Mac OS X (both Intel and PPC)
* Fixed DTS channel order
* Fixed passthrough of digital audio
* Improved pure text subtitle rendering on Mac OS X
* Many fixes for the Qt4 Linux and Windows interface
* Fixes for various crashes (PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype)
* and more...
The complete release notes for this version can be read at
<http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS >.
Binary packages for Windows and Mac OS X, as well as source code
tarballs are available for download at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:
* The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!):
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Documentation/
* The forum: http://forum.videolan.org
* Mailing lists: http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html
* IRC: #videolan on Freenode
We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around
the world for their support and help making this release possible.
Also a big thanks to all Mac OS X users who submitted their
crashlogs. These crashlogs have proven to be invaluable for this
bugfix release.
== WANTED: Windows developers ==
We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment,
our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true
Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for
several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest
usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for
developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes,
Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can
hopefully resume supporting our, largest group of users in the best
possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions
of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and
severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.
So, no donations for work on the Windows version, no "opportunities"-
emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers,
Developers !!!!!
For the VideoLAN team,
Derk-Jan Hartman
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