Software Update: VLC Media Player 3.0.10

Version 3.0.10 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. Since version 3.0.8, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 3.0.10:

Misc:

• Update Twitch & VLSub scripts

Changes in version 3.0.9.2:

Misc:

• Properly bump the version in configure.ac

Changes in version 3.0.9.1:

Misc:

• Fix VLSub returning 401 for search request

Changes in version 3.0.9:

core:

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

Access:

• Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashes 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)
• Media codec aspect ratio with Amazon devices

audio output:

• Added support for iOS audio unit 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