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Provider of Open Source multimedia for everyone! Plays everything, Runs everywhere! VLC, x264, dav1d, libdvdcss, libbluray and soooo many others...

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@videolan

VideoLAN

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Our dav1d decoder makes it to Android as the default AV1 software decoder, providing improved performance and lower power consumption. dav1d is one of the most sophisticated libraries ever built with over two hundred thousand lines of hand written assembly code!

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@videolan

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9 months

It's that time of the year

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6 months

If you wonder why we can't update the VLC on Android version, it's because Google refuses to let us update: - either we give them our private signing keys, - or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can't get fixes.

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App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users... For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

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2 years

Because VLC works perfectly without our servers: we don’t collect info, we don’t require user accounts, we don’t spy on people (telemetry). So once you have VLC, you don’t need our servers, for it to work. Yes, it is sadly rare those days…

@Taltos2020

#SheIsNotSafe 😠

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@videolan @IndiaTodayTech How is my VLC media player working then? 😱😱😱

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2 years

If you are in India, please help us.

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2 years

VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked

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@videolan

VideoLAN

5 years

About the "security issue" on #VLC : VLC is not vulnerable. tl;dr: the issue is in a 3rd party library, called libebml, which was fixed more than 16 months ago. VLC since version 3.0.3 has the correct version shipped, and @MITREcorp did not even check their claim. Thread:

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7 months

If you do wonder why we don't update VLC on the Windows Store or why VLC/iOS can't connect properly to OneDrive shares, it's because Microsoft Kafkaïesque bureaucracy refuses to help us. We're only trying to contact someone since 2years... Any day now...

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VideoLAN

1 year

Yes, we still support iOS9 and 10 and we still see usage of those: an old iPad is still fine to watch videos. Fight against premature obsolescence! #greenIT

@burgazliyata

Градът на ///-те ленти 👟

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@videolan you are probably aware that current version of #iOS is 16.5, are you not…?!?

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VideoLAN

4 years

VideoLAN is 20 years old today! In fact, 20 years ago today, VideoLAN moved from a closed-source student app to the GNU GPL, thanks to the authorization of the @centralesupelec director of that time. VLC has grown a lot since, thanks to 1000 volunteers!

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2 years

Happy holidays!

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3 years

VLC is not written in Java, and is not vulnerable to the #log4j security issues. Please stop sending emails asking this question: we don’t have time to answer all the emails incoming! 🥲

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6 months

It's not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11...

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VideoLAN

8 months

The VLC cone has made it to @NASAKennedy ready for tonight's launch of the VLC time capsule!

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VideoLAN

4 years

VLC is sending a cone to the moon! 🚀🚀🚀 VLC is sending a video time-capsule to the moon, for our 20th anniversary! The time-capsule will be filled with YOUR videos and open source material. Send your videos right now: Thanks to @astrobotic and @NASA

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VideoLAN

6 months

Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste

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VideoLAN

7 years

VLC 3.0.0 is out now! It brings 4K/8K hardware decoding, 360 video & 3D audio, Network Share browsing, Chromecast, new subtitle rendering, HD codec Audio pass-through, complete Blu-ray menus, faster seeking and numerous new formats!

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VideoLAN

3 years

@mirandanielcz VLC loves you too!

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VideoLAN

6 months

@catgirlprostate Of course, F-Droid will not have those restrictions.

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VideoLAN

2 years

As usual, @Google refuses to take down or unlist domains with tons of malware, impersonating normal software. How are those things a grey area?!?

@fcartegnie

François

2 years

If you see a fake @VideoLAN / #VLC download page here, @Google legal thinks it is legitimate enough to refuse to take it offline...

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2 years

@sriksm19 And ? That explains why you must download the official version and not a hacked version of VLC. Banning the main website is exactly the opposite of what you want.

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5 years

Would @MITREcorp behave the same way if we were Microsoft or another big company? But no, we're just a small non-profit, that does not even have the money to pay someone fulltime... End-of-thread.

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7 months

@codeoutofthebox We are nice people.

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VideoLAN

2 years

@IndiaTodayTech Since the 13 of February, according to our stats.

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VideoLAN

5 years

It is still on the @Gizmodo frontpage. If you are working at @Gizmodo , are you not a bit ashamed?

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VideoLAN

5 years

and then, of course, @Gizmodo decided to play the clickbaiting of "Uninstall VLC now, or you are all going to die". Of course, @Gizmodo did not contact at all to check their info. And then, we got hundreds of article about VLC insecurity.

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VideoLAN

2 years

And we're back on the Twitterverse :)

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VideoLAN

1 year

VideoLAN Dev Days 2023 night activity in Dublin #vdd23

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6 months

Android:

@videolan

VideoLAN

6 months

If you wonder why we can't update the VLC on Android version, it's because Google refuses to let us update: - either we give them our private signing keys, - or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can't get fixes.

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6 months

@ImMalMen "Trust us, your private keys are secure on our infra"

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1 year

And 3.0 still runs on XP :)

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VideoLAN

5 years

For whatever reason, unknown to us, @MITREcorp decided to issue a CVE, without talking to us. This is in direct violation of their own policies,

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VideoLAN

6 months

@LinkofHyrule89 Require a reinstall to millions of people… Yep, no can do.

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4 years

Tales from open source: “VLC has updates but not one of your fucking morons has applied a Dark Mode feature. My retinas are burning out of my fucking skull. You do not deserve to compete in a market, when you neglect your customers with such a SIMPLE FUCKING FEATURE AS DARK MODE.

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6 months

Windows:

@videolan

VideoLAN

7 months

If you do wonder why we don't update VLC on the Windows Store or why VLC/iOS can't connect properly to OneDrive shares, it's because Microsoft Kafkaïesque bureaucracy refuses to help us. We're only trying to contact someone since 2years... Any day now...

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VideoLAN

4 years

VLC 3.0.12 is now out! Support for Apple Silicon (Mac M1) and Big Sur, improvements for DASH, RIST, Bluray support, fixes for macOS audio, Windows GPU, crashes and security issues.

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VideoLAN

2 months

A lot of the security community considers their forced updates more important than any outage. In VLC updates are done only by user request.

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VideoLAN

2 years

VLC 3.0.18 has been pushed as an update to most VLC. Numerous codecs and formats updates, improvements on support on formats (DVBsub/mkv, Flac, Hevc on AMD) and protocols (SMBv1/v2, FTP, HTTP2) and seeking improvements. And better compatibility for multichannel output on macOS.

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6 years

@Scott_Helme @Sand_Pox @TheHackersNews @troyhunt @mikko @hackerfantastic @fs0c131y Personal opinion: yes, you are overall very bad. We have only negative feedback from interacting with this community. It is always insults, death threats and clueless people. And never people who try to talk and discuss.

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VideoLAN

3 years

You thought people could not go lower? You thought wrong: people using our donation IBAN from our contribution page to pay their subscriptions for services…

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VideoLAN

5 years

This is not the first time that @MITREcorp does that. In fact, they NEVER EVER contact us when they find security issues on VLC, and we always discover that after they are public, when a user or a distribution asks us.

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VideoLAN

7 months

@SwiftOnSecurity Let’s hope. We even managed to get an answer from Google, once. Hell froze over. But Microsoft, there is no way this works :D :D

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VideoLAN

2 years

Our main servers died today… Our infra will be down for a bit.

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6 months

@0x796 Are you serious?

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6 years

@TheHackersNews @troyhunt @Scott_Helme @mikko @hackerfantastic @fs0c131y You understand that the updates are GPG checked after download? HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or over-a-pigeon do not change a thing here.

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VideoLAN

2 years

Awesome work from @internetfreedom , if you are india, you should support them!

@internetfreedom

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)

@internetfreedom

2 years

When you spoke up for @videolan , we acted. Help us sustain our work. Become an IFF member today. (3/3)

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VideoLAN

6 years

PSA: @HuaweiMobile phones are now blacklisted and cannot get VLC on the Play Store. Their ridiculous policy of killing all background apps (except their own) breaks VLC audio background playback (of course). See and many other reports... @HuaweiFr

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VideoLAN

5 years

@MITREcorp So, a reporter, opened a bug on our bugtracker, which is outside of the reporting policy, aka, mail us in private on the security alias. Of course, our bugtracker is public. We could not, of course reproduce the issue, and tried to contact the security researcher, in private.

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VideoLAN

6 months

@recalltheblocks VLC cannot even enter the Mac App Store, because of the restrictions…

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VideoLAN

5 years

The reporter is using Ubuntu 18.04, which is an old version of Ubuntu, and clearly has not all the updated libraries. But did not answer to our questions.

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VideoLAN

5 years

And this has been going on for years: almost all CVE on VLC have completely insane CVSS, which brings articles like the one we've seen.

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VideoLAN

2 years

@tanvibhakta_ Contact your local government and representatives, to get an answer…

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VideoLAN

5 years

Any non-exploitable read overflow get CVSS of 9.8, like VLC is a server and you could do RCE and compromised the machine, while most of the time, the issue is a crash, often not exploitable, from a local file that the user HAS to open manually.

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VideoLAN

5 years

You can bet that noone of them will correct their article, or it will be in a small subtweet somewhere hidden.

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6 months

@stu080 Yes

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5 years

Then, this time, for whatever reason, @certbund decided to do an advisory , without checking either the crash (it's not hard), or the vulnerability, or even contacting us.

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VideoLAN

5 years

@Gizmodo @BFMTV joined of course, with the ridiculous "60%" of the fix is done, which is what the reporter added in the public bugtracker...

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VideoLAN

8 months

LIFTOFF! THE VLC CONE HEADS INTO SPACE ON ITS WAY TO THE MOON 🚀

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VideoLAN

8 months

The VLC cone has made it to @NASAKennedy ready for tonight's launch of the VLC time capsule!

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5 years

When we complained, and we asked if we could manage our own CVE (like another CNA), we had no answer and @usnistgov NVD told us that they basically couldn't do anything for us, not even fixing the wrong information.

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2 years

@elonmusk If only we were allowed to port VLC on @Tesla cars 😝

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6 months

@JayHadHope lol. Great idea, like the Google Meet (Classic) mess…

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5 years

@Gizmodo @BFMTV And to finish, both @usnistgov NVD and @MITREcorp were contacted more than 12 hours, (7pm CET) and we still are waiting for an answer, while @elpaisinenglish is asking us for clarifications...

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6 months

And, of course, this was not fixed...

@videolan

VideoLAN

7 months

If you do wonder why we don't update VLC on the Windows Store or why VLC/iOS can't connect properly to OneDrive shares, it's because Microsoft Kafkaïesque bureaucracy refuses to help us. We're only trying to contact someone since 2years... Any day now...

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And the @github acquisition (potential) explains why we self-host all sourcecode at @videolan with git or with our @gitlab instance. @Microsoft has been a great citizen for open source lately, but it shows you can never know what will happen with a non-open-source SaaS.

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VideoLAN

5 years

@certbund So, when @certbund decided to do their "disclosure", all the media jumped in, without checking anything nor contacting us.

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VideoLAN

2 years

Experts… Blocking the main website will just push users to weirder websites, and therefore towards shady versions of VLC. Those experts are incompetent…

@DaryllSwer

Daryll Swer

2 years

@internetfreedom @DoT_India @GoI_MeitY Based on my contacts in the Indian ISP space – They suspect (presume) that the so-called “experts” in the government seems to think that by blocking the official site, it will help curb malware that is spread via fake versions of @videolan #BabuLogic

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VideoLAN

3 months

The VLC "Bandes de cones" soapbox will be racing at @redbull soapbox in Toulouse tomorrow (Sunday 2nd June)!

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5 years

And of course, they are never corrected.

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6 years

Come and win the best goodie from the @fosdem : the cone Lego! Limited edition, only 100 pieces exist! On the @videolan booth, in building K!

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5 years

@certbund And of course, @certbund did not contact us for clarifications.

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1 year

VLC running on Apple VisionOS simulator, playing the best movie ever, at VideoLAN Dev Days 2023! #vdd23

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2 years

This is the best idea to motivates us to improve our Brazilian translation… 🤦‍♂️

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VideoLAN

6 years

@morthalys @SwiftOnSecurity We have people claiming bug bounties because our main ftp lists directories and because the source code is available! (I wish it was a joke)

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VideoLAN

4 years

Some cool pictures of old times:

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VideoLAN

4 years

Instead of lowering the resolutions of videos, they should switch to better codecs like AV1: AV1 gives a 50% gain over H.264 (still the king of codecs) and 25% over VP9/HEVC, for the same quality! And of course, royalty free!

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VideoLAN

8 years

The Press Release from the VideoLAN organization related to the Vault7 leak is here: #Wikileaks #CIA

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1 year

@burgazliyata Why are you complaining that we maintain support for old versions?

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3 months

VLC team ready for the soapbox race in the @RedBullFrance « caisse à savon 2024 ». Wish us luck 🍀

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VideoLAN

8 months

@RespectfulMemes Thanks @respectfulmemes 👊 While Jean Baptiste is the president of the VideoLAN non-profit, VLC is developed by a global community of volunteers. You can support us here:

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VideoLAN

6 years

It was very difficult for us to get a certificate for Windows Authenticode and for Apple, as a French non-profit: we are not individual, not a US 501, not a company... It took us days to get them... And every expiration is a sweat.

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@SwiftOnSecurity

6 years

Notepad++ 7.6.4 released without digital code-signing certificate as protest against the difficulty of open source projects obtaining them. Do we need a LetsEncrypt-style CA for code? (h/t ⁦ @nemokamui ⁩)

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VideoLAN

8 months

Remember this? The VLC time capsule is on the @astrobotic lander mounted on the @ulalaunch Vulcan rocket. We'll be bringing you live coverage from Cape Canaveral this weekend!

@videolan

VideoLAN

4 years

VLC is sending a cone to the moon! 🚀🚀🚀 VLC is sending a video time-capsule to the moon, for our 20th anniversary! The time-capsule will be filled with YOUR videos and open source material. Send your videos right now: Thanks to @astrobotic and @NASA

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Hey @MITREcorp and @CVEnew , the fact that you NEVER ever contact us for VLC vulnerabilities for years before publishing is really not cool; but at least you could check your info or check yourself before sending 9.8 CVSS vulnerability publicly...

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VideoLAN

4 years

And of course, in order to not have our families starve on the street, we are going to work right away on your very important feature… Because we did not think about it…

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VideoLAN

4 years

There will be more and more updates, with nothing improved except fixing your own bullshit mistakes. I'd be embarassed to work on such a piece of shit like this. Your families deserve to starve on the street, for your insolence.“ Thanks Tina, you are very nice.

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7 years

VLC 3.0.0 is tagged. Expect a release in the next 3 days... (if no big issue arise)

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6 months

Also, compared to the version tested, dav1d 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 (not yet out) will improve speed further.

@MishaalRahman

Mishaal Rahman

6 months

Google is planning to push an update to Android phones that could dramatically improve AV1 video playback on budget devices. The March 2024 Play System Update may swap Google's libgav1 codec with @videolan 's libdav1d codec. Here's why that matters👇

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@notquite_ We love you too :)

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6 years

@Scott_Helme @Sand_Pox @TheHackersNews @troyhunt @mikko @hackerfantastic @fs0c131y But thanks to @TheHackersNews and others from the InfoSec community, we'll get the insults for the whole next months...

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VideoLAN

4 years

@StereoBucket Whatever the feature, wishing for people to starve on the streets, is literally insane.

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2 years

And VLC does not talk to any server, unless your playlist contains links to that server...

@imsoumyarendra

Soumyarendra Barik

@imsoumyarendra

2 years

🚨Exclusive: MeitY blocked VLC's website after it found it was communicating with servers of a previously banned app - Onmyoji Arena - which was transferring personal data of Indians to a “hostile country", an internal ministry note said @IndianExpress 1/2

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VideoLAN

5 years

VLC 3.0.7 is out: minor release focused on security issues and minor annoyances/bugs. This fixes more than 30 security issues, 2 being important, discovered thanks to the EU-FOSSA program done by @EU_Commission

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VideoLAN

4 years

M1 chips are very fast. Full decode of AV1 sample Chimera in 1080p using dav1d: i9-9980H: 76/312/369fps MacMini M1: 79/354/346fps (Numbers are SingleThread; 4 Frame Threads with 4 Tiles Threads; and finally 8 Frame Threads with 4 Tiles Threads)

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VideoLAN

4 years

This is not a joke, we're actually sending it. Time is limited to prepare the videos and material, RT appreciated. @elonmusk , please send us a video too!

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1 year

And this is the perfect example why companies with lots of VC funding / big corpo, should support more open source core projects... "Open"AI should know this...

@sama

Sam Altman

1 year

we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating. a small percentage of users were able to see the titles of other users’ conversation history. we feel awful about this.

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2 years

Come to our #FOSDEM booth, cones and presents to win! (And a demo of VLC.js)

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2 years

Come and see us at @OSXP_Paris #OSXP2022 Team Orange cones!

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2 years

Too much Twitter for today, I guess…

@watchingspirals

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2 years

VideoLAN isn't a real organization, it's an amalgamation of a bunch of developers groomed by state actors (China, US, etc.) to sneak vulnerabilities into VLC player

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PA: we're sustaining a weird but continuous DDoS on our mirrors infrastructure. However, it's a bit weird, since it's not that big, but clearly noticeable. And coming Worldwide. So we're not sure what is happening yet.

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6 years

Objective: reaching #3billion downloads of VLC during #CES2019 . Come to booth #50241 in EurekaPark to meet us. Help us get to 3 billion by Friday!

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5 years

AV1 live encode and playback demo at #mhv2019 AV1 in @firefox (ARM+x86), @googlechrome , @MicrosoftEdge , Safari and @videolan VLC, all using dav1d. Encoded live with @intel SVT-AV1 in @DASH_IF (360p to 1080p) format.

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