Thread: VLC Player Officially coming
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zaheerm is offline zaheerm
2009-11-04 , 15:50
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Originally Posted by redenisc View Post
VideoLAN project, started 1996, open-sourced early 2000, fully functional at that time (though no Windows support at that time).
gstreamer project started from scratch early 2000.
GStreamer was first made public in 1999, we celebrated our 10 year anniversary this year. Citation: GStreamer 0.0.9 released! 1999-10-31 from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/

Regardless it is good to have multiple projects that work on similar things. We even collaborate a little. I spoke with some VLC guys at GSoC Mentor summit last week and we talked about further collaboration on stuff like BluRay support.
 

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