VLC 0.9.2 Adds a Slew of New Features, Improvements

It’s not too often that a new version of VLC gets released, so when one does break through the grasps of the developers, people celebrate. The previous version of this ultra-popular media player was 0.8.6, which to date has had over one-hundred million downloads (staggering), but now the clock has been reset with the launch of 0.9.2.

One major new feature is a new interface module for Linux, Unix and Windows. The Linux player might look a bit different depending on your distro and installed packages, but you can see how mine looked below (the blue window decoration is from KDE, not VLC). Overall, it looks better, cleaner and more intuitive, but that might be a matter of opinion.

This new version also brings in support for more codecs, both for video and audio, and also video filters. To help become a more robust media player, support has been added for popular video services like YouTube (inputting the URL to the video will automatically load it in VLC), in addition to Last.fm submission support and automatic album art downloading. There’s way too much new to mention here though, so definitely check out the “what’s new?” page and then give the latest version a download.

The 0.9 version of VLC media player adds a new interface module for Linux, Unix and Windows, a media library and an improved playlist, many new inputs and codecs support and many new audio and video filters. For video playback, new protocols, new codecs, new demuxers and many bug-fixes have been added to support more formats. For audio playback, cover art and metadata support (and editing) have been vastly enhanced. It can play audio when the playback speed is changed.