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Today we went to the Acropolis, where we could marvell the wonder that is the Parthenon. For more videos, check our Facebook page.

Those wonderful folks at Videolan have released a new version of the VLC Media Player. If you’re using an ATI graphics card, and you’ve got version 10.7 or higher of the Catalyst drivers installed, then VLC can use DxVA2 hardware acceleration as well.

What’s new in 1.1.5:

• 1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC’s playlist, provided by Channels.com
• New Game Music Emu (GME) support
• Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006
• Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek
• Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1
• live .webm streams support
• GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2
• Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules
• Codecs updates

Get it while it’s still hot!

Okay, we know: you use Videolan‘s Media Player VLC (because you know what’s good for you), but what we don’t know is if you’re using Windows as well. If you are, then you might want to upgrade again, because some problems have been fixed:

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

• Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules – VideoLAN-SA-1005
• Fix for folders opening issue on Windows
• Updated translations

Go and get that upgrade, already!

Imagine you have a bunch of videofiles that you’d like to play on a standalone DVD player -with a nice menu of course. Well, in that case, DVD Flick is definitely worth while considering, not just because it is extremely simple, versatile, powerful but also because it is open source -oh joy! Read the rest of this entry »