VLC Media Player 1.0.0 is finally out

Considering VLC has worked wonderfully for many years, I am not sure how an arbitrary version bump is particularly meaningful.

New HD codecs work well. It can finally handle my Blu-ray rip of Blade Runner without being choppy.

The official website, announcing the news: <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" rel="nofollow">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/</a><p>This version doesn't support Mac OS X Tiger anymore. From the changelog:<p><pre><code> Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations.</code></pre>

While nothing beats mplayer-nogui, it's nice to have an alternative running on Windows.

This news and Google Apps coming out of beta in the same day?<p>I can't take all this sudden and drastic change!

They're missing checksums for the download files. Here are md5sums:<p><pre><code> ca4041c2d80391b9963e7599b75b8c1d *vlc-1.0.0-win32.exe 58d0e276690442fa887e9a07767ddd6c *vlc-1.0.0.dmg</code></pre>

After experiencing frequent crashes with VLC (every 2 out of 3 launches, on different pc's), I eagerly upgraded to 1.0 to find that... it still crashes 2 out of 3 times. I must be doing it wrong.