VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC plays absolutely anything. It supports an enormous number of multimedia formats, and does not require you to download additional codecs. VLC features a complete streaming server, with extended features like video on demand, on-the-fly transcoding, granular speed controls, frame-by-frame advancement and more. It can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC Media Player now features fully customizable toolbars, customizable Skins, supports playback for broken files as well as zipped files, and so much more.
VLC Media Player 3.0.22 RC2 changelog:
Core:
- Assume subpictures are in SDR by default
Windows:
- Add Windows ARM64 builds (Minimum Windows 10 RS5 17763 / 1809)
- Fix support for Windows XP SP3
- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows
- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP
Decoders:
- Fix Opus channel mapping
- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video
- Add dav1d-all-layers option
- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing
- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4
- Disable decoding using libdca, libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec
Demuxers:
- Add support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option
- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska
- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck
- Handle pictures in FLAC
- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally
- Cut QNap title on first invalid character
- Fix display of certain JPEG files
- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)
- Multiple fixes in MPEG-TS
- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others)
Input:
- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS
Interface:
- Add option to use dark palette (Qt)
- Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5
- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider
Service Discovery:
- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback
Video Output:
- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi
- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP
Video Filter:
- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)
- Improve visualization of low frequencies in spectrogram
Contrib:
- Update amf to 1.4.34
- Update dav1d to 1.5.1
- Update FFmpeg to 4.4.5
- Update freetype to 2.13.1
- Update gettext to 0.22.5
- Update gcrypt to 1.10.1
- Update glew to 2.1.0
- Update gmp to 6.3.0
- Udpate gnutls to 3.8.10
- Update harfbuzz to 11.5.0
- Update iconv to 1.17
- Update libarchive to 3.8.0 including support for RAR 5.0
- Update libass to 0.17.3
- Update libbluray to 1.4.0
- Update libmatroska to 1.7.0
- Update libogg to 1.3.6
- Update libpng to 1.6.50
- Update libvpx to 1.15.2
- Update lua to 5.1.5
- Update openjpeg to 2.5.0
- Update orc to 0.4.33
- Update srt to 1.5.3
- Update taglib to 1.13.1
- Update zlib to 1.3.1
- and more 3rd party updates
- libmpeg2, libdca and liba52 are no longer build by default
- build ragel inside harfbuzz if necessary
Misc:
- gnutls: remove manual DH prime bits setting
- Avoid very large fonts in portrait mode
- Update of most translations
Security:
- Heap Buffer Overflow READ in TY, NSV, CVDsub, SPU, Subrip, TX3G, MPJEG demuxers and decoders
- Heap Buffer Overflow Write in RLE, MP4, TX3G demuxers and decoders
- Assert failure in AVI, MP4 demuxers and Core
- Null dereferences in CSS, Flac and VTT modules
- Use-after Free in SVG decoder
- Crash in Subtitles core, in jpeg2 inside TS
- Multiple crashes and OOB in CEA-708 subtitles
- OOB read on Oggspot, MP4
- Multiple leaks in MKV, ASF/WMV, CAF and PS demuxers, WebVTT and SVCD decoders
- Busy loop in WebVTT
Download: VLC Media Player (64-bit) | Portable ~40.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player (32-bit) | Portable
Links: VLC Media Player Website | ARM64 | Screenshot
