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VLC Nightly Builds Bring Tweaked Look, New Features

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VLC is bar far and away the most popular media player on Ubuntu, if not Linux.

But its interface has never been as slick as it could be.

Thankfully the VLC nightly builds, unstable snapshots of the next release, have brought with them a slightly improved look…

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[How to] Enable DVD Playback in Ubuntu 11.04

Trying to play a DVD in Ubuntu but getting no-where? You probably forgot to enable DVD playback.

Here I show you how.

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Easy Blu-ray Movie Playback in Linux

Watch Blu-Ray discs in Ubuntu – with next-to-no effort required – thanks to a new script by Scott Duensing.

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Linux Movie players: VLC Vs Totem Vs Parole

VLC may the king of features, but is it the king of performance?

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GNOME-Vlc brings GTK interface, Simplicity to VLC

Gnome-Vlc is a new project designed to provide a simple GTK frontend to the popular Vlc player. Still in its infancy, the project was borne “…out of frustration with other players that failed to tick all the boxes.” KISS – Keep It Severely Simple Simplicity is the keyword to keep in mind here. GNOME-VLC is [...]

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How To Fix Video Tearing In Videos; Nvidia, Ubuntu

Screen-tearing is an issue for many Nvidia users on Ubuntu. Videos are plauaged by a visible ‘tear’ mid way through the screen during any moments of intense action or horizontal panning. Gamers find anything that sidescrolls too much also results in the same issue. Here’s an example of it: – Thankfully kopiwe over on the [...]

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VLC Video Editor In Action [Video]

Despite not being able to get the ruddy thing to compile, VLMC has attracted a lot of interest since we first published the news yesterday. The VLMC team appear to have a YouTube channel with this self-described demo video on it. The application in the video is the real deal, so take a peek at [...]

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VLC Team To Launch Video Editor

The people behind one of the most widely used cross-platform applications ever known to man – VLC – are due to formally announce the addition of a new project to their already impressive roster – the perhaps-not-so-snappily-titled "VideoLAN Movie Creator" (VLMC). Aiming to do for pro-sumer video editing what VLC did for media playback, the [...]

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VLC looks so pretty at Xmas…

VLC’s cute easter-egg is once again cracking itself open… Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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