VLC 4.0 will have a new user interface
During a recent talk at the FOSDEM conference, VLC‘s lead developer gave us a sneak peek at changes coming to the open source, cross-platform media player in the coming year.
Under the hood VLC 4.0 will have some changes to the way video is handled, there will be support for 3D and VR, and the media library that’s already included in VLC for Android is coming to other platforms (as an optional feature).
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The new user interface is still a work in progress, but VLC developers have shared a few mockups showing what it looks like so far. The updated UI brings more modern features including a semi-transparent overlay so you can see menu items and controls on top of a video, for example.
The UI will also follow design cues from different platforms, so the Windows 10 version should look like a native Windows app, while there are also versions for Android, iOS, and GNU/Linux desktop environments including Gnome and KDE.
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New features coming to VLC 4.0 include:
- Support for new media formats including HEIF, WebM and AV1
- AirPlay and UPnP rendering (to go along with the recently-added Chromecast support)
- Support for the Wayland server
- SMBv2 and SMBv3 support
VLC is also dropping support for some older operating systems, so in order to run VLC 4.0 you’ll need to be running:
- Windows 7 or later
- MacOS 10.10 or later
- Android 4.2 or later
- iOS 9 or later (this seems to still be up in the air, you may need iOS 10 or later)
- VLC for Linux will required OpenGL
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