VLC Media Player 3.0.19

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 3.0.18 and 3.0.19:

Core:

Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios

Demux:

Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information

Decoders:

Multiple fixes on AAC handling
Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
Fix rawvid video in NV12
Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering

Video Output: