VideoLAN's VLC media player added new experimental features which will support two video compression formats, HEVC and VP9, that are at the center of a technologically and legally complicated fight for the future of online video.
VLC 2.1.1, free and open-source software which is released on Thursday, continues with the program's broad support philosophy by supporting many compression formats. That neutrality, though, is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to next-generation video formats.
The video competition is chiefly betweenGoogle's open-source VP9 codec and HEVC, which has patent royalty burdens but which comes from a standards process with a lot of industry clout.
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