VLC 1.1.0 is going to be the Fastest of all

Everytime I read something about VLC 1.1.0, I always find something new about it, making it better and better. You would have read my previous posts about its amazing new features along with some cool facts. This time Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the developer, showed in his blog, how VLC 1.1.0, codenamed the luggage, is going to be faster than all of the previous versions. 

Lets take a look at the main improvements which will contribute to its Fast functionality.

Faster Decoding of HD videos

With the world moving towards high-definition, its a must for all the media players to have fast encodings for HD videos. And lets say VLC was a little behind in this aspect, which the developers plan to fix in the new release using the following methods:

• GPU decoding
• fast CPU decoding, especially windows.
• DSP decoding using OpenMax IL on embedded Linux, like Maemo.
• Better audio pipeline, making it a better audio player too.
• Less use of RAM and threads.

With its new capability to do the decoding part on a GPU, VLC takes loads of processing from the CPU. And its even better and faster when you are using a compatible GPU, like nVidia. VLC will then hardly consume 10% of the CPU.

In some more improvements, VLC will be using less RAM and threads than the previous releases. So, as you can see, the new VLC 1.1.0 is going to be way faster, lesser resource intensive and better than ever.