Download VLC Media Player 3.0.19

Version 3.0.19 of VLC Media Player has recently been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having to install the relevant codec. There is also support for Chromecast, hardware acceleration for decoding 4K and 8K video, support for HDR, display of 360-degree videos and 3D audio, access to network locations via SMB, FTP and NFS, HD audio passthrough and support. for BD-Jmenus. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

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 trying 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:

• Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
• Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
• Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
• Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
• Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS

Input:

• Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts

Conribs:

• Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
• Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
• Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass

Misc:

• Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
• Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
• Fix GOOM visualization
• Fixes for Youtube playback
• Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
• Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
• Fix opening files in read-only mode
• Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
• Fix some crashes on macOS when switching applications
• Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
• Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
• Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
• Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs
• Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs

Translations:

• Update of most translations
• New translations to Esperanto, Interlingue, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Odia, Samoan and Swahili