A week ago, I ran a post about an article comparing 3 popular media players and several commenters pointed out VLC was their choice and were surprised it was left off the list. Well, the popular open source media player users will be happy to know VLC 1.0.0 is now available.

This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.

While I typically do not upgrade immediately after a major release (I prefer to let early adopters find the bugs), going from seemingly perma-beta to a stable release is significant. This appears to be a must get version for VLC users.

Enjoy and please post your thoughts on this new version if you take the plunge.