Extensions in VLC, starting from version 1.1
February 1 2010, 11:30am
Motivated from the community driven addons feature of Firefox, VLC developers have announced that starting from Version 1.1 users will be able to write their own plugins, code named extensions, for VLC media player. These extensions will be written in Lua, a light weight scripting language, embedded inside VLC media player.
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