Rémi Denis-Courmont

Why (not) to relicense VLC under LGPL?

2012-11-30T22:10:00Z

The tedious and intricate process of relicensing has been documented. However a number of curious have asked not how but why was that was done in the first place.

AVC-encoding camera with VLC and Video4Linux

2012-03-26T19:37:00Z

VLC media player version 2.0.2 for Linux will gain support for AVC-encoding (a.k.a. ITU-T H.264 a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 10) video cameras. This include the -currently- higher-end standard USB Video Class webcams boasting H.264.

At this time, those devices are a bit expensive, with prices starting at about a 100€. But they can encode high-definition video in real-time at acceptable quality.

With adequate Video4Linux device drivers found in kernel version 3.1 or later, you can capture H.264 video with the magic VLC media location, e.g.: v4l2://:chroma=h264 (video device number 0) or v4l2:///dev/video1:chroma=h264 (device number 1).

VLC 1.2 on Linux

2011-10-20T17:06:00Z

VLC media player version 1.2.0 is getting ready. The code freeze has been ongoing for a few weeks, and the first test version should be out in a matter of days. I would like to use this as an opportunity to review the Linux port news...

VLC 1.1.11 to address security issues

2011-07-14T12:44:00Z

As a security contact I used to announce VideoLAN security advisories on the main VideoLAN website. But most users are not literate in open-source development and do not understand the difference between source code releases and availability of binaries. So lets try another slightly less visible venue to announce the two advisories for the security fixes in upcoming VLC version 1.1.11: CVE-2011-2587 and CVE-2011-2588.

Update: VLC 1.1.11 is now officially released.