Banshee 1.7.0, the first of the 1.7 beta series leading to 1.8, has been released. Banshee 1.7.0 is the first of the unstable 1.7 series, leading up to a stable 1.8 release in the fall. It contains many bug fixes for 1.6.0, as well as new features and enhancements...
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VideoLAN x264 is a free library written from scratch for encoding H264/AVC video streams. It announces to be the first free software Blu-ray encoder, the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. H.264/AVC was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264...
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Banshee 1.6 is a stable release, the culmination of a 14 months of work by 53 developers. New features and enhancements:# Play Queue Auto DJ# Sync Device From Playlist# Grid View# Type-ahead Find in Track, Artist, and Album Lists# Automatic Scoring# New Shuffle By Rating and Score Modes# Audiobooks Library# YouTube# eMusic Importer/Downloader...
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Miro 3.0, a major new version of the video play and Internet television application has been released. Miro plays video and audio media files in a variety of different formats. This includes Ogg Theora and Vorbis, two formats that are distributed freely and aren’t patent encumbered. Many publishers have high definition versions of their podcasts...
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VideoLAN stated in their website on 22 March 2010 that ISS and SecurityForce are spreading outdated security issue which was fixed 2 years ago. “So-called “Security” teams are spreading wrong information about an “unpatched” security issue in VLC. ISS and SecurityFocus are presenting a security issue in versions of VLC, that are, in fact, more than...
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Announced from Banshee project, Banshee 1.5.6 (aka 1.6 RC2) was released on 20 March, with lots and lots of bug fixes. Help test it, report bugs, and make Banshee 1.6 as solid as it is sexy! Banshee is an open-source media player. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is...
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Banshee 1.5.5 was just released, including gapless playback, a grid album browser, and a YouTube extension! It contains lots of good bug fixes as well – those of you burned by the 1.5.4 SQL crash will be pleased with the additional QA given to this release. Download it here. Banshee is an open-source media...
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According to VLC News, VLC issued a Security Advisory that “Clam AntiVirus incorrectly claims that the x86 SSE2-accelerated I:4:2:2 chroma conversion plugin as being a computer trojan. This affects builds of VLC media player with recent versions of the MingW compilation toolchain.” This may make copying, installing and/or using of VLC media player or applications...
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