VLC Media Player 3.0.10

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 3.0.9.2 changelog:

Misc

Properly bump the version in configure.ac

Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:

Misc

Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request

Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:

Core

Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM

Access

Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing unwanted glitches
Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares

Demux

Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
Enabled Live seeking for HLS
Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options

Packetizers:

Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing last frame or audio
Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops

Decoder

avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles on some DVD
Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
Update libfaad to 2.9.1
Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices

Audio output

Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz

Video output

Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm

Text renderer

Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding

Mux

Fixed some YUV mappings

macOS

Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between a wrong size and the correct size. Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option is used
Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration in digital mode

Service Discovery

Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2

Misc:

Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores playback of YouTube URLs.
Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
Improved chromecast audio quality

Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10: