Download VLC Media Player 3.0.6

Version 3.0.6 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:

• Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures

Codec:

• Add support for 12 bit decoding of AV1
• Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata