VLC Media Player 2.2.3 'Weatherwax' is available now

VideoLAN has announced availability of VLC 2.2.3, latest update in worlds most popular open source media players 2.2.x series. This release announcement is applicable for all platforms including windows, GNU/Linux and OS X. VLC media player is well known for it's ability to support wide range of media formats.

Following are notable highlights of VLC Media Player 2.2.3:

• Notable number of improvements, like green lines in the Windows video output and resuming where you left off.
• It also improves our codec support by adding new formats and providing faster decompression.
• More than 30 fixes for issues reported for 2.2.2.
• You can finally open more than 15 elements from the Windows' Explorer.

See original release announcement published by VideoLAN team.

Clementine Music Player 1.3.0 released after more than 2 years

The Clementine Music Player developers announced release of Clementine Music Player 1.3, latest stable release of cross platform supported music player inspired by Amarok 1.4. This release of Clementine is coming more than two years after release of previous stable version Clementine 1.2.

Clementine 1.3 is compatible with Clementine Remote application for Android an android app that will allow you to control music player remotely using an android device. Also, this release includes support for accessing music files stored in vkcom and seafile.

Following are some notable highlights of Clementine Music Player 1.3

• Vk.com support
• Seafile support (server >= 4.4.1)
• Added Ampache compatibility (through Subsonic service)
• Added new analyzer "Rainbow Dash"
• Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything
• Includes "Psychedelic Colour" mode to all analyzers
• Added left click to fullsize cover on playing widget.
• Add m4b support for non-drm files.
• Ignore English articles for library sorting.
• Improve the organize dialog.
• Added an option to warn before closing a playlist tab.
• Added an option to disable the pause notification.
• Added options to hide some internet services.
• Added an option to disable inline song metadata editing.
• Added "details below" and "no details" now playing widget options.

See more features in original change log published by Clementine team.

Kodi Media Center announces two brand new themes

The Kodi team announced plan to introduce two brand new themes in future releases of Kodi Media Center. Kodi, which was formerly known as XBMC is an award winning open source media center which is capable of playing videos, audios, pictures, games and more.

It was long back in 2009, Kodi team introduced a new theme, when Kodi was known as XBMC. Since then, Kodi is using same theme for years, though there are some minor tweaks and improvements. Now Kodi team is unveiling two, yes, two themes.

From official announcement:

Many months of hard work have been put into these two new skins as that’s how long it takes to build a new skin from the ground up. Mainly team members Phil65, Piers and ronie have been working in secret creating these brand new beautiful skins that will become the new look and feel for Kodi. Build from the ground up with the main focus on using the latest features in the best way possible. Additionally they had a lot help of some core developers on getting the needed changes done to Kodi and the rest of the team for getting most of the testing done.

Both skins are installed by default and most users will start with Estuary while iOS users will start with Estouchy.

Read complete announcement and see more screen shots in Kodi portal.