First impressions : VLC 0.92 “Grishenko”

Video LAN finally released VLC media player 0.92 (named “Grishenko”) after nearly two years of development. Here is a quick review of this media player:

1. There are noticeable changes done to the player’s UI. The playlist, for a change. looks lot more livelier with album art support. What is also noticeable is the additonal Last.FM support ala Amarok.
2. I was a little disappointed that VLC still does not support playback of Real media files.
3. Quite a lot of changes have gone into the decoder, demuxers and the filters. I tried out the spatializer audio filter and it sounded great to be honest !
4. There are many options available to the user to play around with under the ‘Preferences’ option. It is going to take a long time to review each one of them in detail.
5. Unfortunately, the player seems to be crashing quite a lot already, and I installed this just this morning!

You can check out the release notes on the Video LAN site for more details regarding new features and bug fixes that have gone into this release. Just a warning though, this player does not seem to be that stable despite some nice new features being added to it.

VLC 0.9.2 is out!!

As I am writing this, the download stats on the Video Lan site read a whopping 100 thousand downloads for Windows alone!!

Download using this link. Enjoy!!