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 3.0.19 RTX Highlights:
- VLC 3.0.19 RTX is a custom version of "Vetinari"
- It activates Super Resolution upscaling by default on nVidia RTX GPU
VLC 3.0.19 RTX features:
Core
- Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
- HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
- 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
- Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
- 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
- Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
- Subtitles size modification during playback
- Secure passwords storage
Acceleration
- Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
- HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
- HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
- MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
- Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
- HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox
- New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux
Codecs
- BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
- Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
- OggSpots video decoder
- New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
- New BPG decoder based on libbpg
- TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
- TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant
- Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
- BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder
- Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708
- New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows
Protocols and devices
- Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO
- Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support
- Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases
- Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF
- Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks
- Support for HTTP 2.0
- Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing
- Support for SRT streaming protocol [full feature list]
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.19 RTX Beta | 64.6 MB (Open Source)
View: VLC Media Player Website | Changelog