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VLC Media Player 3.0.10

by Razvan Serea







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 Media Player 3.0.9.2 changelog:



Misc



Properly bump the version in configure.ac Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:



Misc



Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:



Core



Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM Access



Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes Fixed DVD glitches on clip change Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing unwanted glitches Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares Demux



Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS) Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio Fixed MP4 interlacing handling Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes Enabled Live seeking for HLS Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options Packetizers:



Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing last frame or audio Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops Decoder



avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles on some DVD Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles Update libfaad to 2.9.1 Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits) Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices Audio output



Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz Video output



Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm Text renderer



Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding Mux



Fixed some YUV mappings macOS



Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between a wrong size and the correct size. Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option is used Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration in digital mode Service Discovery



Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2 Misc:



Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores playback of YouTube URLs. Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows Improved chromecast audio quality Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:



Update Twitch & VLSub scripts Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.10 (32-bit) | Portable | ~40.0 MB (Open Source)

Download: VLC Media Player 3.0.10 (64-bit) | Portable |

View: VLC Media Player Website | Other Operating Sytems



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