Download VLC Media Player 3.0.1

Version 3.0.1 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having 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:

• Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
• Fix crash on exit on Windows

Video output:

• Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
• Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
• Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
• Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
• Fix pink screen on Windows

Decoder:

• Fix potential stack buffer overflow with fade
• Enable Cinematic HD in avcodec

Hardware Decoder:

• macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
• android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
• Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
• Improve Direct3D11 memory usage

Demux:

• Improve MKV seeking speed
• Fix xspf base URL handling
• Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
• Fix adaptive http redirections
• Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
• Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
• Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
• Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
• Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
• Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes

Packetizer:

• Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video

StreamOutput:

• Improve chromecast loading speed
• Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
• Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
• Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
• Fix wrong first cover art when casting
• Fix casting to VP9

macOS Interface:

• Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
• Auto-layout improvements
• Remove misleading playback warning indicator
• Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
• Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
• Fix MKV files association
• Fix chromecast audio detection

Qt Interface:

• Improve scaling on HiDPI displays

snap:

• Improve interface look and feel.