Download VLC Media Player 3.0.4

Version 3.0.4 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:

Decoder:

• Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
• Decode AV1 streams
• Fix playback or low fps files
• Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced ​​H.264 streams on macOS
• Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
• Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
• Fix crashes with LPCM streams
• Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
• Fix MediaCodec rotation handling

Demux:

• Improve FLV fps detection
• Fix some ogg/flac
• Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
• Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
• Support files split in the .mts%d pattern
• Fixes for MKV seeking
• Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
• Fix playback or incomplete RAR files (downloading)

audio output:

• Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
• Improve macOS audio performance
• Support 44.1kHz DTS pass-through
• Fix crashes on DirectSound output

Video Output:

• Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
• Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
• Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
• Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
• Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
• Fix potential green screen on Windows XP

Text renderer:

• Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
• Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
• Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
• Fix some RTL rendering

Misc:

• Fix live555, macOS UI, screen capture crashes
• Change the extension registration names on Windows
• Fix VLM ‘now’ date
• Fixes on the HTTPD server
• Fix on the NTservice registration
• Fix –stop-time option
• Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
• Fix subtitles alignment
• Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
• Fix detection SAT>IP servers

Qt:

• Fix tooltip display when using Wayland

macOS:

• macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
• Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
• Modernized and improved support for media keys
• Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
• Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
• Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel

translation:

• Update of most translations