VLC media player (also known as VLC) has always been one of my favorite video players. Why? Because is extremely portable and above that – is an open source player written by the VideoLan project. The software has been ported to all possible OS environments starting with Microsoft Windows, Linux and going all the way to Mac OS X, BeOS, MorphOS, BSD, Solaris, iOS and eComStation.
Also, the VLC media player supports lots of audio and video compression methods and is excellent in picking up any file format, as obscure as it might be. It also has the capability of streaming over computer networks and transcode multimedia files. And now VLC has just announced its second version which was nicknamed “Twoflower”.
What are the extra tweaks Twoflowers brings to the table? Well users will be happy to learn that the user interface has been altered quite a bit, better hardware decoding for H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid and WebM has been added and another host of multimedia file format recognition has been installed.
If you are a Mac user, you’ll be happy to know that your interface has been completely redesigned, which make VLC so much easier to use. Twoflower also deals a pretty massive army of bugs. It comes with support for new devices like BluRay Discs. But most importantly TwoFlower offers a new rendering pipeline for video and better quality in viewing subtitles. Some new video filters were also added in order to bring more clarity to the videos. The new version is available on the official website.
