The renowned free and open source media player VLC produced by the VideoLAN project has reached the 2.0 milestone, with the download available for all platforms now.
The last major version update, 1.0, was released back in 2009 with the team releasing incremental upgrades and fixes since then. After 485 million downloads, the team have brought out 2.0 which comes improved decoding in all flavors of the app is now improved on multi-core and mobile systems, alongside enhanced GPU support. There’s also experimental Blu-ray playback and, of course, the software can now handle even more codecs. The universal media player just got that little bit better.
Official versions for iOS and Android are on their way as well.