{"id":13013,"date":"2010-11-15T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/vlc-player-updated-to-include-channelscom\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:08:19","slug":"vlc-player-updated-to-include-channelscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/vlc-player-updated-to-include-channelscom\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC Player updated to include Channels.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just under three months after the last update, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\">VideoLAN<\/a> have released version 1.1.5 of <a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>VLC Media Player for Mac<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Windows<\/a><\/strong> which is a minor release with a few interesting new features. Most notable is new channel integration with Channels.com bringing hundreds of new streaming channels to VLC Player such as Reuters News, ESPN and National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p>To access them, just right-click or CMD-click on the VLC Playlist and select <strong>Services Discovery<\/strong> and <strong>Channels.com<\/strong>. Channels.com will then appear in your playlist. Click on it to reveal the the different categories of channels available:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/screen-capture.jpg\" alt=\"screen-capture.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the category you want and a drop down list of all available channels appears:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/screen-capture-3.jpg\" alt=\"screen-capture-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just click on the channel you want to watch and streaming should begin almost immediately:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/screen-capture-2.jpg\" alt=\"screen-capture-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VLC 1.1.5&#8217;s list of improvements includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC&#8217;s playlist, provided by Channels.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> New Game Music Emu (GME) support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Windows SMB security issue &#8211; VideoLAN-SA-1006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Mac\/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> live .webm streams support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Codecs updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full changelog can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/releases\/1.1.5.html\">here<\/a> on the VideoLAN website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just under three months after the last update, VideoLAN have released version 1.1.5 of VLC Media Player for Mac and Windows which is a minor release with a few interesting new features. 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