VLC 3.0.22 (RC1) adds Windows ARM64 compatibility

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.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Sep 23, 2025 12:18 EDT with 3 comments

VLC Media Player

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 RC1 changelog:

Add option to use dark palette (Qt)
Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5
Add Windows ARM64 builds
Fix support for Windows XP SP3
Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows
Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP
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
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)
Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others)
Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS
UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback
Use a better stretch mode in wingdi
Fetch missing device information when running in UWP
Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)