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Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

VLC is hands-down one of the world’s most popular media players, with hundreds of millions of active users. But the team behind it has been surprisingly quiet over the past year, with no major updates ...

While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here's how to get the most ...

Additional note for Ubuntu users: snap sandboxing has become stricter, and while you could have used python-vlc with snap installed VLC with 20.04, you apparently cannot with Ubuntu 24.04. Thus use ...

Impact Statement: The main contribution of this work is the theoretical analysis of the affect of LED clipping and the APD saturation on the performance of VLC system. We introduce SNDR as a ...