VLC Media Player 3.0.4

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 3.0.4 changelog:

Decoder

Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
Decode AV1 streams
Fix playback of low-fps files
Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
Fix crashes with LPCM streams
Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
Fix MediaCodec rotation handling

Demux

Improve FLV fps detection
Fix some ogg/flac
Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
Fixes for MKV seeking
Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)

Audio Output

Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
Improve macOS audio performance
Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
Fix crashes on DirectSound output

Video Output

Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
Fix potential green screen on Windows XP

Text renderer

Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
Fix some RTL rendering

Misc

Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
Change the extension registration names on Windows
Fix VLM "now" date
Fixes on the HTTPD server
Fix on the NTservice registration
Fix --stop-time option
Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
Fix subtitles alignment
Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
Fix detection SAT>IP servers

Fix tooltip display when using Wayland

macOS

macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
Modernized and improved support for media keys
Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel

Translations

Update of most translations

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