VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1

VLC VideoLan Media Player

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 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:

Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
Translations updates

Misc:

Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes

Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:

Decoder

Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
Fix video scaling in VDPAU
Fix playback of palettized codecs
Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
Fix AES3 16bps decoding
Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
Fix SCTE-27 colors

Demuxer

Fix possible ASF integer overflow
Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
Fix flac null-pointer dereference
Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks

Video output

Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
Fix screenshots size

Access

Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
Fix FTP scan string injection
Fix HTTP size handling

Mux

Fix mp4 drift

Lua

Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts

Audio filter

Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter

Windows

The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
Fix uninstaller path handling
Fix taskbar buttons behavior

MacOS