Download VLC Media Player 3.0.3

Version 3.0.3 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play a variety of audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. In version 3.0, support for Chromecast has been added, among other things. There is also hardware acceleration for decoding 4k and 8k video, support for HDR, playback of 360-degree videos and 3D audio, access to network locations via SMB, FTP and NFS, among others, HD audio passthrough and support for BD-Jmenus. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

core:

• Update subtitles display while paused

Access:

• Enable srt support on binary builds

decoders:

• Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
• Disable VideoToolbox for 10bit H.264
• Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
• Fix subsdec wide character support
• Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux:

• Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bug fixes, including ogdds
• Fix forced tracks selection
• Fix Topfield files
• Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
• Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS:

• Fix “Open Network Stream” URL box focus
• Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
• Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output:

• Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt:

• Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
• Fix spurious movement of the main Window
• Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc:

• Fix ame output
• Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
• Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
• Fix audio scrobbling
• Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
• Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

translation:

• Update of most languages