VLC 2.0 Released, Brings Experimental Blu-Ray Support [Install from PPA]

VLC 2.0 has been released bringing in UI improvements, faster decoding, experimental Blu-Ray support and many other new features and fixes.

New Features

• Faster decoding on multi-core, GPU
• Ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs
• A new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles
• New video filters to enhance your videos
• Supports many new devices
• Fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers
• CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding
• Improved web UI
• New resamplers for higher quality audio
• Simplification of the audio core for faster processing
• Full list of changes here

VLC 2.0 is already available in Ubuntu 12.04. Ubuntu 11.10 users can install it from a PPA by running the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install vlc