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.
Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
- Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
- Translations updates
Misc:
- Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
- Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
- Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
- Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
- Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
- Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
- Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
Decoder
- Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
- Fix video scaling in VDPAU
- Fix playback of palettized codecs
- Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
- Fix AES3 16bps decoding
- Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
- Fix SCTE-27 colors
Demuxer
- Fix possible ASF integer overflow
- Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
- Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
- Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
- Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
- Fix flac null-pointer dereference
- Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
Video output
- Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
- Fix screenshots size
Access
- Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
- Fix FTP scan string injection
- Fix HTTP size handling
Mux
- Fix mp4 drift
Lua
- Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts
Audio filter
- Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
Windows
- The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
- Fix uninstaller path handling
- Fix taskbar buttons behavior
MacOS
- Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
- Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items
Download: VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1 (32-bit) | Portable | ~30.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1 (64-bit) | Portable |
View: VLC Media Player Website