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 3.0.17.4 and 3.0.18-rc:
Demux
- Major adaptive streaming update, notably for multiple timelies and webvtt
- Fix seeking with some fragmented MP4 files
- Add support for DVBSub inside MKV
- Fix some Flac files that could not be played
- Improve seeking in Ogg files
Decoders
- Fix DxVA/D3D11 crashes on HEVC files with bogus references
- Fix libass storage size and crash
- Fix decoding errors on macOS hw decoding on some HEVC files
Video Output
- Fix color regression with VAAPI/iOS and OpenGL output
- Fix some resizing issues with OpenGL on GLX/EGL/X11/XV
- Fix Direct3d9 texture stretching
- Fix 10-bit accelerated video filters on macOS
Playlist
- Avoid playlist liveloop on failed/tiny items (temporize EOS bursts)
Misc
- Misc fixes for the extension UI on macOS
- Improve SMBv1 and SMBv2 behaviours
- Improve FTP compatibility
- Support RISC-V
- Fix AVI muxing for Windows Media Player compatibility
- Fix seeking speed on macOS
Contribs
- update FFmpeg, bluray, upnp, pthread, x265, freetype, libsmb2, aom, dav1d, libass, libxml2 (contains CVE), dvdread, harfbuzz, zlib, gme, nettle, GnuTLS, mpg123, speex, bluray, libvpx
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.18 (64-bit) | Portable ~40.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.18 (32-bit) | Portable
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