VLC 1.1.0 Multimedia Player Released w/ GPU Decoding For NVIDIA

By Nathan Kirsch

The VideoLAN Project has released VLC media player version 1.1.0! This new version supports GPU and DSP decoding on selected platforms, support for new codecs, demuxers and muxers, Lua extensions and Lua content extensions (luaSD), improved interfaces, removal of lots of modules and a major rewrite of many modules in order to improve performance. If you run VLC player this sounds like an update that you’ll want to get. We did find it interesting that the VideoLAN project suggested using NVIDIA GPU’s and said that AMD/ATI needs to fix their drivers on Windows. Wonder what AMD/ATI has to say about that!

VLC media player

Ready for HD

  • GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
  • GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
  • DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
  • Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
  • Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8

NB: so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia GPU, until ATI fixes their drivers on Windows, and until VLC developer get access to some Intel hardware supporting GPU decoding.

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