May 16, 2024
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/22279750/vlc-4-0-new-user-interface-videolan-media-player-video-music-movie-database-web-player

Variation 4.0 of VLC, the popular cross-platform media playing software application, is prepared for release in the coming months,Protocol reports The huge brand-new function is a revamped user interface, which VideoLAN structure president Jean-Baptiste Kempf hopes will look “a bit more contemporary.” Protocol also reports that the group is dealing with incorporating more online material into the software application, along with a brand-new method of running VLC in a website. It likewise has an IMDb rival in the works.

VLC’s designer VideoLAN offered the world a peek at what this new interface might appear like method back in February 2019 at the FOSDEM conference. Screenshots launched at the time reveal a user interface that drops the gamer’s outdated light grey color pattern in favor of a style including transparent user interface aspects, and modern-looking icons. “Do not fret,” Kempf jokes when presenting the images, “You can still utilize a command line.”

It’s a a lot more contemporary style.
Image: VideoLAN/ FOSDEM

The user interface playing a music file.
Image: VideoLAN/ FOSDEM

Along With VLC 4.0, the VideoLAN group is likewise working to bring more online material into the software application, with extensions to use third-party videos. Providing complimentary ad-supported videos in the future, comparable to how Plex handles its own streaming service, is another possibility. Along with bringing online material into VLC, the group is establishing a brand-new variation of the software application that can more quickly run inside a websites utilizing Webassembly and JavaScript rather of the old web browser plug-in. Kempf states that you’ll have the ability to play “any kind of motion picture right inside your web internet browser” when it’s all set.

Maybe most appealing is the Moviepedia Task, as it’s understood internally. It’s an effort to construct an IMDb-style database for movies, which can be modified and kept by users.

There’s no company release date for when VLC 4.0 may get here, however you can learn more about VideoLAN’s prepared functions for the release in its 2019 presentation (or take a look at a recording here).

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