Following months of testing, the second version of popular video playback software VLC has been released to the public. VLC 2.0 improves decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware, as well as higher quality subtitles and video filters. In addition, Mac OS X users can expect to see a refreshed UI for VLC, with support for full-screen mode under OS X Lion.

With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.

Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.

It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).

Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.

Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.

VLC 2.0 is available for download here.