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VLC 3.0 Media Player released
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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/07/vlc-3-...r-release/      VLC 3.0 Media Player release
by Martin Brinkmann on February 07, 2018 in Music and Video - Last Update: February 07, 2018 
VideoLAN, maker of the popular VLC Media Player for various desktop and mobile operating systems, plan to release VLC 3.0 final to the public soon.

The new version of the multimedia player is already on the official FTP server. The company released a total of nine release candidate builds before that and used these builds to fix various issues before the final release.

VLC 3.0.0 features under-the-hood changes mostly. The player supports Chromecast, new audio and video formats including HDR, HTTP 2.0, reworked core components with improvements, ISO over network play and a lot more.     You can update an existing copy of VLC Media Player on desktop machines, or install the new version without transferring any existing customizations to the new version.

VLC 3.0's interface looks more or less identical to previous versions. VideoLAN marked it as a LTS, Long Term Service release for several systems. The organization notes that VLC 3.0.x will be the last working releases for Windows XP and Vista, and the matching Windows server variants, for Mac OS 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9, for iOS 7 and 8, and for Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x and 4.1.x.

The 3.0 branch of VLC has new requirements:

Windows XP: release should work for the most part, but it has limitations.
Windows Vista: requires platform upgrade.
Linux: requires Kernel newer than 2.6.26.
Mac OS X: needs version 10.7 or newer.
VLC 3.0.0 changes
VLC 3.0.0 includes lots of changes compared to the last stable version 2.2.8. Here is a short list of important changes in the new media player release:

Core: network browsing for SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS and other file systems supported.
Core: support for keystores to fetch and store passwords securely.
Core: auto-detection of external audio tracks.
Core: support for HDMI passtrhgouh for HD audo codecs such as E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD.
Core: support for Chromecast and other output renderers, and Chromecast output module.
Core: support for 12bits corec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
Core: portable version of Windows build supported.
Core: start videos paused on first frame.
Core: support for 360 video and audio.
Core: support for ambisonic audio and more than eight audio channels.
Access: adaptive streaming improements, e.g. MPEG-DASH rewrite, support for HDS.
Access: support for decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar).
Access: HTTP 2.0 support.
Access: cookie handling improvements.
Access: DVB-T2 support on Windows BDA
Access: new WASAPI audio capture module.
Access: Blu-Ray open ISO over network, support for BD-J, and DVD ISO over network.
Hardware Decoder: supports HEVC decoding and Direct3D 11 decoding on Windows.
Hardware Decoder: supports HECV hardware decoding, MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android.
Hardware Decoder: support for VP9 and WMV3 decoding.
Hardware Decoder: new hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and iOS.
Decoders: support for experimental AV1 video, ARIB STD-B24 subtitles, experimental Daala video.
Decoders: support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
Decoders: extended MicroDVD support.
Demuxer: MP4 demuxer rework with support for additional formats.
Demuxer: TS demuxer rework.
Demuxer: Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
Demuxer: MKV improvements
Video output: support for HDR10 in Direct3D 11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Side note: The new VLC 3.0 fixed long-standing WMV playback issues that I experienced when using VLC. It would not play some WMV files correctly, and I had to use Windows Media Player for these files. This seems to have been fixed in VLC 3.0.  : http://www.videolan.org/         VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization.
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http://www.videolan.org/       News & Updates
VLC 3.0.2
2018-04-23

VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.2 release, for general availability. This release is fixing most of the important bugs and regressions from VLC 3.0.0, "Vetinari", and improves decoding speed on macOS. More than 150 bugs were fixed since the 3.0.0 release.

http://www.videolan.org/        VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization.

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http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS        Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
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Core:
 * Update subtitles display while paused

Access:
 * Enable srt support on binary builds

Decoders:
 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
 * Fix subsdec wide character support
 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux:
 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
 * Fix forced tracks selection
 * Fix Topfield files
 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS:
 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output:
 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt:
 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc:
 * Fix amem output
 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
 * Fix audioscrobbling
 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

Translations:
 * Update of most languages   :  https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html         VLC for Windows
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A new version of VLC (3.0.4) 

VLC 3.0.4 is a minor update to VLC 3.0 branch, fixes numerous hardware decoding issues, adds support for AV1 streams and fixes security issues. It also improves the support for numerous formats, and regressions in video quality compared to 2.2.x, in certain cases.        https://www.videolan.org           VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization.
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https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.5.html       VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization.
VLC 3.0.5 Vetinari
VLC 3.0.5 is the second version of the "Vetinari" branch of our popular media player.     3.0.5 Fixes
VLC 3.0.5 is the fifth update of "Vetinari"
Faster and more complete support for the AV1 codec,
Compatibility with macOS 10.14 "Mojave", with native dark mode, and notarization,
Improvements for Blu-ray playback, RTP and UDP streams,
Improvements for MP4, MKV, CAF and AV1 media,
Improvements for HDR support, tone-mapping and native Windows HDR support,
Fixes for Chromecast, Direct3D11, Youtube and subtitles rendering.      Download VLC
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