VLC Media Player 3.0.5

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 3.0.5 changelog:

Access

Improve RTSP playback
BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue

Codec

Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
Enable libaom decoder by default
Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding

Demux

MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
Fix CAF integer-underflow
Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones

Packetizer

Add an AV1 packetizer

macOS

Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
Fix convert & save panel stream option

Audio output

Fix corking when the playback state is paused
Improve corking on Android

Video Output

Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
Misc Direct3D11 fixes

Miscellaneaous

Improve ChromeCast
Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
Update Youtube support
Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance

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