VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

• Update subtitles display while paused
• Enable srt support on binary builds
• 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
• 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
• Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
• Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
• Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferencesVideo Output:
• Fix crashes on Direct3D11
• Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
• Fix spurious movement of the main Window
• Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
• 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
• Update of most languages