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 3.0.12.1 and 3.0.13:
Demux:
- Adaptive: fix artefacts in HLS streams with wrong profiles/levels
- Fix regression on some MP4 files for the audio track
- Fix MPGA and ADTS probing in TS files
- Fix Flac inside AVI files
- Fix VP9/Webm artefacts when seeking
Codec:
- Support SSA text scaling
- Fix rotation on Android rotation
- Fix WebVTT subtitles that start at 00:00
Access:
- Update libnfs to support NFSv4
- Improve SMB2 integration
- Fix Blu-ray files using Unicode names on Windows
- Disable mcast lookups on Android for RTSP playback
Video Output:
- Rework the D3D11 rendering wait, to fix choppiness on display
Interfaces:
- Fix VLC getting stuck on close on X11 (#21875)
- Improve RTL on preferences on macOS
- Add mousewheel horizontal axis control
- Fix crash on exit on macOS
- Fix sizing of the fullscreen controls on macOS
Windows:
- Fix subtitles/OSD under Windows XP
Misc:
- Update translations
- Improve MIDI fonts search on Linux
- Update Soundcloud, Youtube, liveleak
- Fix compilation with GCC11
- Fix input-slave option for subtitles
Changes between v3.0.13 and v3.0.14:
Core
- Fix double loading of slave input
- Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version installer
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.14 (32-bit) | Portable | ~40.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.14 (64-bit) | Portable |
View: VLC Media Player Website | Other Operating Sytems