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  • Apple TV OS may surface at WWDC

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    Even an HDTV may need its own custom operating system.

    Per Boy Genius Report, Apple may show off an updated version of its Apple TV operating system at next week’s World Wide Developer Conference.

    The new version is expected to be packed with more features, and will be the version of the OS on Apple’s rumored upcoming HDTV, the report says. Apple is reportedly talking to manufacturers about using a new “control out” application programming interface that allows accessories to work with the new Apple TV operating system and television. The idea is to allow users to control any component with an Apple remote.

    The article also stated that Apple won’t be showing the HDTV at WWDC. The show is expected to feature an updated version of its iOS mobile platform, and likely the debut of updated MacBook notebooks.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

  • VLC Updated to 1.0.5

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    Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 1.0.5 over the weekend. The new version, a 40.1 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes:

    Decoders:
    – SubRip extra styles improvements.
    – Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders.

    Mac OS X Interface:
    – Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote.

    Windows port:
    – Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues.

    Translations:
    – Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates.
    – New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations.

    Audio outputs:
    – Fix deadlocks in the audio output core.
    – Make PulseAudio the default output if available.

    Video outputs:
    – Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers.
    – Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing.

    Input:
    – Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3.
    – Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm).

    Playlist:
    – Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U).

    Unix:
    – Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher.
    – Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD.

    Qt4 interface:
    – Fix opening V4L version 1 devices.
    – Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard.

    Translations:
    – New Walloon translation.
    – Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates.

    VLC 1.0.5 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.