Software Update: VLC Media Player 3.0.17

Version 3.0.17 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. There is also support for Chromecast, 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 in front of BD-Jmenus. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

core:

• Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
• Allow brackets in path part of URLs

Access:

• Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
• Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
• Improve HTTP2 memory usage
• Improve AVCapture module
• Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
• Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
• Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)

Decoders/Packetizers:

• Add support for DTS LBR
• Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
• Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
• Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
• Fix crashes with VP9 streams
• Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
• Fix playback or live AV1 streams

audio output:

• iOS/tvOS: add support for spatial audio
• macOS: fix some channels ordering for > 5.1 channels
• Android: rework audio volume management

Video Output:

• Fix a D3D11 crash when the stream changes aspect ratio

Demux:

• Major overhaul of the adaptive streaming stack
• Support for DAV video files
• Add WebP image mapping
• Fix missing audio start or Opus audio in MKV/WebM
• Fix an infinite loop in MP4
• Fix attachments extractions in ogg files
• Support Uncompressed audio in mp4 (ISO/IEC 23003-5)
• Fix some lip sync issue in weird MPEG-TS streams

Interface:

• Qt/macOS: Fixup user provided URLs
• Add safe area handling on macOS
• Qt: improve preferences search
• Qt: fix –no-mouse-events option

Misc:

• Update YouTube script
• Fix Icecast directory parsing which could lead to missing entries
• Improve UPnP compatibility with some servers

3rd party libraries (contrib):

• Update FFmpeg to 4.4
• Update libflac to 1.3.4 to fix CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561
• Update libsmb2 to fix invalid UTF-8 encoding of some filenames
• Update taglib to fix corruptions when editing some OGG metadata
• Update dav1d to 0.9.2
• Update fribidi to 1.0.11
• Update freetype to 2.11.1
• Update libass to 0.15.2
• Drop pthreadGC2 in favor of winpthreads
• Enable Java support for blurays on Apple M1
• Update libsrt to 1.4.4
• Update twolame to 0.4.0
• Update mpg123 to 1.29.3
• Update libnfs to 5.0.1
• Update lib archive to 3.6.0
• Update AOM encoder to 3.1.1