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Wednesday, August 18 2010

Free music and VLC

Actually more and more artists are following the Open Source movement and create really nice content (both audio and video). Since the lastest release of VLC media player (1.1.0), we added the ability to access selections of Free Music directly from the playlist. Let's have a look at these contents.

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Friday, July 30 2010

ZFS and shred

ZFS is a really powerful and convenient file system but the way ZFS works makes some tools absolutely inefficient...

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Wednesday, July 14 2010

Saving memory for free

We have reduced the memory footprint of VLC media player only by repacking some important structures. Let's have a look at the way the structures are arranged in memory and its impact on the memory usage.

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Monday, February 1 2010

Visualisations in VLC

Last summer, I worked on VLC media player as part of the Google Summer of Code, One part of my job was to integrate libprojectM inside VLC media player.

libprojectM is a library that create visualisation accoring to the samples it receive. As you can see the results are really amazing. And for the next version of VLC media player you will normally see this nice feature. Lest enjoy a first screenshot!