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 3.0.2 changelog:
Core
- Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
- Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
Decoders
- Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster, supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
- Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
- Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
- Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
- Fix MIDI playback on macOS
- Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
Demux
- Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
- Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
- Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
- Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
- Fix TTML inside MP4
- Improve MP4 read of color information
- Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
- Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
- Fix display of chapters with no name defined
- Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
- Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
- Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
- Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc [full release notes]
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.2 (32-bit) | Portable | ~30.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.2 (64-bit) | Portable |
View: VLC Media Player Website