VLC Player

Free and open source, cross-platform multimedia player VLC Media Player got updated to v 1.1.0 introducing impressive new features like better support for HD video via GPU decoding, improved audio experience, faster decoding, lighter footprint, new add-ons and script framework for personalization and added support for WebM decoding and encoding. Full list of new changes with download links is available after the jump.

The first bugfix release version of the 0.9 VLC Media player series is out now for public downloading, unfortunately and surprisingly no Windows version is yet released for the latest build 0.9.3 citing lack of Windows developers contribution to the project, according to the official website with such a situation new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

The old Windows version 0.9.2 is quite buggy on certain configurations and may display libvlc.dll errors as shown below before playing any media file.

Latest version of highly versatile and popular VLC Media Player v 0.9.2 is now available for downloading, the last version of the free open-source cross-platform media player was downloaded 95,056,974 times from the official website itself, the current version is getting downloaded at the rate of ~ 5.1 downloads/second.