VLC Media Player 2.2.8

VLC 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 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:

Decoders

Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection

Demuxers

Fix potential crash in ASX parser
Fix AVI read/write overflow

Mac OS X

Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually update to the newest version.

Video Output