Download VLC Media Player 1.1.0 with GPU acceleration

The first public release of VLC Media Player 1.1.0 Pre-build with support for GPU acceleration is available for download. With the ability to offload number crunching involved in video decoding to the GPU, the developers hope to improve video performance of H.264 encoded videos that has been plaguing the media player for long.

If you have a compatible GPU, especially an nVidia, VLC Media Player will play faster and should consume less than 10% of your CPU especially on Windows Vista/7 and Linux.

VLC also has a new decoder that can use OpenMax IL codecs for DSP decoding . OpenMax IL in VLC can decode and encode most of the codecs: Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H264, H263, WMV1, WMV2, WMV3, RV10, RV20, RV30, RV40 and aac, amr, mp3.

Other notable changes to the VLC 1.1.0 are

DVB HD subtitles
PGS Subtitles from Blu-Ray dumps
sftp protocol
Atrac1 audio codec
Indeo5 video codec
AMR (Narrow Band) audio codec
Windows Media Voice/Speech audio codec
Improved Flac support (7.1 and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
7.1 Vorbis audio support
ADPCM in flv files
DVD-Audio files .aob, so you can play your DVD-Audio files on your computer
vqf, amv, wpl and zpl file support
Midi files on Windows port!
CDDB support on Windows
Podcast images
Windows 7 taskbar integration

Download VLC 1.1.0 Pre-Build

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