VLC Media Player 3.0.3

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 3.0.3 changelog:

Core

  • Update subtitles display while paused

Access

  • Enable srt support on binary builds

Decoders

  • Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
  • Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
  • Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
  • Fix subsdec wide character support
  • Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux

  • Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
  • Fix forced tracks selection
  • Fix Topfield files
  • Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
  • Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS

  • Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
  • Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
  • Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output

  • Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt

  • Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
  • Fix spurious movement of the main Window
  • Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc

  • Fix amem output
  • Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
  • Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
  • Fix audioscrobbling
  • Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
  • Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

Translations

  • Update of most languages

Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.3 (32-bit) | Portable | ~30.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.3 (64-bit) | Portable |
View: VLC Media Player Website

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