VLC Media Player 3.0.19 RTX Beta

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 3.0.19 RTX Highlights:

• VLC 3.0.19 RTX is a custom version of "Vetinari"
• It activates Super Resolution upscaling by default on nVidia RTX GPU

VLC 3.0.19 RTX features:

Core

• Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
• HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
• 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
• Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
• 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
• Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
• Subtitles size modification during playback
• Secure passwords storage

Acceleration

• Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
• HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
• HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
• MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
• Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
• HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox
• New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux

Codecs

• BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
• Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
• OggSpots video decoder
• New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
• New BPG decoder based on libbpg
• TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
• TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant
• Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
• BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder
• Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708
• New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows

Protocols and devices

• Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO
• Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support
• Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases
• Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF
• Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks
• Support for HTTP 2.0
• Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing
• Support for SRT streaming protocol [full feature list]

Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.19 RTX Beta | 64.6 MB (Open Source)
View: VLC Media Player Website | Changelog

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