VLC Media Player 3.0.17

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 3.0.16 and 3.0.17:

Core

Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
Allow brackets in path part of URLs

Access

Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
Improve HTTP2 memory usage
Improve AVCapture module
Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)

Decoders/Packetizers

Add support for DTS LBR
Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
Fix crashes with VP9 streams
Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
Fix playback of live AV1 streams

Audio Output