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The Document Foundation has released their free office suite LibreOffice in the stable version 4.0 with a lot of new features.

The new release is the standard CMIS connection to content management systems such as Alfresco, IBM FileNet P8, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Nuxeo, Open Text and SAP NetWeaver cloud service. With numerous new import filters, the office suite all Visio formats and open files from Microsoft Publisher, the interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents has been improved.

For the first time there is an Android app , with the presentations can be controlled remotely with the component Impress. Currently this only works on some Linux distributions, Windows and other Linux distributions and Mac OS X will follow with the next release.
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Today, October 3, 2012 the release of one of the best free packages for three-dimensional modeling and animation, Blender 3D numbered 2.64. Even though the event occurred with three months behind schedule, it was worth it. New in this version:

• Mask editor - editor masks. Now the embedded graphic or video editor you can create masks that can be used to ask for compositing nodes of influence composition or exclude unwanted items.
• Motion tracker - tracking the movement – significantly improved by the addition of flat tracking and harmonization of the existing tracking in hybrid tracker with improved governance. (more…)

GStreamer project represents the first stable release of the GStreamer multimedia framework with a stable API and ABI.

1.x branch – a stable branch, aimed at the end user. Its API and ABI compatible with those of the branches 0.10.h, but, if necessary, the two branches can be installed and used in parallel.

Major news and improvements:

• More flexible use of memory.
• Extensible and consistent binding system metadata to buffers.
• Increased efficiency of buffering small objects.
• Automatic dispatch in state of dynamic flux.

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More than a year since the previous release, when I got a new stable version of the player Exaile. The main focus was on bug fixes, many of which remain open for several years.

Major improvements:

• Correction of errors, leading to a drop during start-up or listening.
• Improved support for drag-n-drop (for example, auto-scrolling).
• When removing the tracks are placed in the basket. (more…)

The CentOS-based desktop distribution Stella is available in version 6.3 with new software.

Forms the basis of Red Hat clone CentOS version 6.3. In addition, a Stella binds more package repositories: EPEL, ElRepo, one for Adobe software, as well as the distribution’s “nux-dextop” and “nux-libreoffice”. The new release brings, among other things FFmpeg 0.10.4, MPlayer and VLC 2.0.3 and 1.0.14020120205svn Audacity 2.0.In the desktop environment, Gnome 2.x. Stella relies on
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SMPlayer – a complete graphical environment for the media player MPlayer, which provides the basic features like MPlayer (video, DVD and VCD), and the more advanced features like support for filters for MPlayer, Subtitle auto search, and other properties characteristic of a graphical environment.

What’s new in version 0.8.0:

• added to the editor toolbar, it is now possible to choose which buttons and controls will be visible on toolbars;
• new video filters: banding (gradfun), blur and sharpness;

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Recently, a new version of the universal multimedia combine VLC 2.0.0, codenamed «Twoflower».

The updated player appeared faster decoding on multi-core systems on the GPU and mobile devices. Format is now supported even more, among them professional codecs, codec with support for high-resolution 10-bit color per channel. There was a huge work, and a change of major version the player is justified.

VLC 2.0.0 contains a new rendering pipeline video, subtitles and better support for new video filters. Completely redesigned interfaces for Mac and the Web. Version 2.0.0 fixes hundreds of bugs, it contains more than 7000 commits from 160 independent developers.
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After a very long break, saw the light of the next release of a multimedia player xine 1.1.20. 
The main innovations of release:

• Added support for file formats rv30 (RealVideo 8), rv40 (RealVideo 9) and AAC LATM
• Added the ability to use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick
• Fixed a bug that prevented build xine for Debian GNU / kFreeBSD
• Added new translated into Japanese and changes in the Czech translation
• Support for the new port on the architecture of MinGW-w64, as well as numerous upgrades to the port on MinGW

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Dynebolic, a live distribution with tools for multimedia design, is available in a thoroughly revised version 3.0.0.

Since the release of version 2 five years ago, the former live-CD to a DVD of 1.6 GB size has grown. There is a Debian Live system with packages from the distributions and Trisquell Puredyne. Only free software and drivers are used, so the hardware support is limited. The makers recommend a look at the list of H-Node for supported hardware.
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Through the efforts of the team Debian Multimedia, after many squabbles with patents and copyrights in the individual files in the distribution appeared codec Xvid and x264, implementing the MPEG-4 ASP and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. Prior to that Debian users had to connect third-party repositories.

The new packages will be available in unstable in the next few hours, along with the version of media player VLC, compiled with support for x264. In the nearest future the team featured Debian Multimedia rebuilding MPlayer and libav (fork ffmpeg, replaced in the cycle of wheezy proper ffmpeg) to support the new codecs.