Software Update: VLC Media Player 3.0.5

Version 3.0.5 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:

Access:

• Improve RTSP playback
• BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
• Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue

Codec:

• Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
• Enable libaom decoder by default
• Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding

Demux:

• MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
• Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
• Fix CAF integer underflow
• Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones

Packetizer:

• Add an AV1 packetizer

macOS:

• Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening enabled on macOS Mojave. All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order to continue working with the official VLC package.
• Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
• Fix convert & save panel stream option

audio output:

• Fix corking when the playback state is paused
• Improve corking on Android

Video Output:

• Fix Direct3D11 tone mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
• More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
• Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
• Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
• Misc Direct3D11 fixes

miscellaneous:

• Improve ChromeCast
• Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
• Update Youtube support
• Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance