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  • 3.0.19
    32b50de2 · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.19 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the twentieth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This update contains numerous fixes and improvements, notably:
    - a fix for a major FLAC regression,
    - a fix for next-frame freezing the app,
    - hardware decoding for AV1 and other improvements for AV1,
    - improvements for Wav (RIFF INFO), MP4, AVI (Qnap, GBRP), RealVideo,
    - Super Resolution scaling with Intel and nVidia hwardware,
    - mumerous fixes for various files support,
    - fixes for hardware decoding on Windows, Android and macOS,
    - other fixes and security updates.
  • 3.0.18
    e9eceaed · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.18 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming update
    - Codec updates
    - Fix seeking for some formats
    - Many updates of third party libraries
    - Numerous crash fixes
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.18-rc2
    VLC media player 3.0.18-rc2 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming update
    - Codec updates
    - Fix seeking for some formats
    - Many updates of third party libraries
    - Numerous crash fixes
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.18-rc
    675232e5 · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.18-rc 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming update
    - Codec updates
    - Fix seeking for some formats
    - Many updates of third party libraries
    - Numerous crash fixes
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.17.4
    c650ce1a · On the road to 3.0.17.4 ·
    VLC media player 3.0.17.4 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This is a hotfix release to fix a UPnP regression on Windows.
    Other platforms are *not* affected by this release and can stay
    on 3.0.17.3
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
    - Major codec updates
    - Many third party libraries update
    - Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
    - Better notch support for new macbooks
    - Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
    - Improve AV1 live streaming support
    - Several SRT support improvements
    - Numerous crash fixes
    - Update youtube script
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.17.3
    426513d8 · On the road to 3.0.17.3 ·
    VLC media player 3.0.17.3 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This is a fixup release which fixes a regression that could cause a
    lack of audio for adaptive streaming playback.
    It is identical to 3.0.17.2 otherwise.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
    - Major codec updates
    - Many third party libraries update
    - Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
    - Better notch support for new macbooks
    - Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
    - Improve AV1 live streaming support
    - Several SRT support improvements
    - Numerous crash fixes
    - Update youtube script
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.17.2
    c4ab31d5 · On the road to 3.0.17.2 ·
    VLC media player 3.0.17.2 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This is a fixup release which fixes youtube playback and contextual
    menus on integrated video for the Qt interface.
    It is identical to 3.0.17-1 otherwise.
    
    Please note that the patch version is now specified as `.X` instead of
    `-X` as it was for the previous 3.0.17 fixup release, as it was
    requested by some Linux distributions packagers.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
    - Major codec updates
    - Many third party libraries update
    - Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
    - Better notch support for new macbooks
    - Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
    - Improve AV1 live streaming support
    - Several SRT support improvements
    - Numerous crash fixes
    - Update youtube script
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.17-1
    VLC media player 3.0.17-1 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This is a fixup release which bumps libflac to 1.3.4 in order to fix
    CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561 on platforms for which we provide
    binary releases.
    It is identical to 3.0.17 otherwise.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
    - Major codec updates
    - Many third party libraries update
    - Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
    - Better notch support for new macbooks
    - Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
    - Improve AV1 live streaming support
    - Several SRT support improvements
    - Numerous crash fixes
    - Update youtube script
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.17
    VLC media player 3.0.17 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
    - Major codec updates
    - Many third party libraries update
    - Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
    - Better notch support for new macbooks
    - Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
    - Improve AV1 live streaming support
    - Several SRT support improvements
    - Numerous crash fixes
    - Update youtube script
    
    And many more! Check our news file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.16
    5e70837d · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.16 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the seventeenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    This release fixes a regression in the Direct3D11 module on Windows 8 &
    8.1.
    It also:
    - Adds touchbar support
    - Fixes the RTSP server timeout handling
    
    Along with a few other improvements!
    
  • 3.0.15
    d3094196 · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.15 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the sixteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fix delays when seeking with D3D11
    - Fix opening DVD folders with non ascii characters
    - Fix ASF regressions with brodcast streams
    - Fix dropping audio on seek with MP4 content
    - Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles
    - Improve freetype fonts outlining
    - Fix HTTPS support on Windows XP
    
  • 3.0.14
    41878ff4 · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.14 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the fifteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This update focuses on fixing a critial issue with the auto updater on
    Windows, causing the new installer to be downloaded, but without
    launching the installation.
    Unfortunately windows users will have to manually update from 3.0.12
    to a newer version.
    
  • 3.0.13
    VLC media player 3.0.13 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the fourteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fix artifacts in HLS streams
    - Fix MP4 audio support regressions
    - Add SSA text scaling support
    - Add NFSv4 support
    - Improve SMB2 integration
    - Improve Direct3D11 rendering smoothness
    - Add mousewheel horizontal axis support
    - Security fixes
    
    And many more, check our NEWS file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.12.1
    17015740 · Update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.12.1 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the thirteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fix audio glitches during the start of an audio playback on macOS
    - Fix adaptive streaming handling of resolution settings
    - Fix crashes when using Direct3D11 videl filters
    - UI improvements for macOS Big Sur
    - Add support for Reliable Internet Stream Transport
    - Various web interface fixes
    - Various security fixes
    
    This is also our first release with native support for Apple Silicon.
    
    Check our NEWS file for more details!
    
    VLC 3.0.12.1 is a macOS arm only release.
    
  • 3.0.12-1
    VLC media player 3.0.12 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the thirteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fix audio glitches during the start of an audio playback on macOS
    - Fix adaptive streaming handling of resolution settings
    - Fix crashes when using Direct3D11 videl filters
    - UI improvements for macOS Big Sur
    - Add support for Reliable Internet Stream Transport
    - Various web interface fixes
    - Various security fixes
    
    This is also our first release with native support for Apple Silicon.
    
    Check our NEWS file for more details!
    
    3.0.12-1 restores macOS 10.7 support in the release build.
    
  • 3.0.12
    d590d61d · l10n: vlc.desktop update ·
    VLC media player 3.0.12 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the thirteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fix audio glitches during the start of an audio playback on macOS
    - Fix adaptive streaming handling of resolution settings
    - Fix crashes when using Direct3D11 videl filters
    - UI improvements for macOS Big Sur
    - Add support for Reliable Internet Stream Transport
    - Various web interface fixes
    - Various security fixes
    
    This is also our first release with native support for Apple Silicon.
    
    Check our NEWS file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.11.1
    52483f3c · update NEWS ·
    VLC media player 3.0.11.1 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the twelfth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    VLC 3.0.11.1 is a macOS only release, mainly fixing an issue
    with audio playback. For more details, please see the NEWS file.
    
    Vetinari is a major release changing a lot in the media engine of VLC.
    It is one of the largest release we've ever done.
    
    Notably, it:
     - activates hardware decoding on all platforms, of H.264 & H.265, 8 & 10bits,
       allowing 4K60 or even 8K decoding with little CPU consumption,
     - merges all the code from the mobile ports into the same codebase with
       common numbering and releases,
     - supports 360 video and 3D audio, and prepares for VR content,
     - supports direct HDR and HDR tone-mapping,
     - updates the audio passthrough for HD Audio codecs,
     - allows browsing of local network drives like SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...
     - stores the passwords securely,
     - brings a new subtitle rendering engine, supporting ComplexTextLayout
       and font fallback to support multiple languages and fonts,
     - supports ChromeCast with the new renderer framework,
     - adds support for numerous new formats and codecs, including WebVTT,
       AV1, TTML, HQX, 708, Cineform, and many more,
     - improves Bluray support with Java menus, aka BD-J,
     - updates the macOS interface with major cleaning and improvements,
     - support HiDPI UI on Windows, with the switch to Qt5,
     - prepares the experimental support for Wayland on Linux, and
       switches to OpenGL by default on Linux.
    
  • 3.0.11
    VLC media player 3.0.11 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the twelfth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
    - Fixes a regression with some encrypted HLS streams
    - Fixes HLS live stream playback regression
    - Fixes imprecise seeking in m4a files
    - Fixes resampling on Android
    - Fixes a potential crash on startup on macOS
    - Fixes a crash when listing blurays mount points on macOS
    - Avoids unnecessary permision warnings on macOS
    - Fixes AAC playback regressions
    
    Additionanally, it fixes the security issue reported as
    CVE-2020-13428, and bumps libarchive to 3.4.2 as a result of
    CVE-2020-9308 & CVE-2019-19221
    
    Check our NEWS file for more details!
    
  • 3.0.10
    VLC media player 3.0.10 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the eleventh release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates focuses on fixing issues with VLSub
    
    It also improves support for the meson build system in our contribs.
    
    Vetinari is a major release changing a lot in the media engine of VLC.
    It is one of the largest release we've ever done.
    
    Notably, it:
     - activates hardware decoding on all platforms, of H.264 & H.265, 8 & 10bits,
       allowing 4K60 or even 8K decoding with little CPU consumption,
     - merges all the code from the mobile ports into the same codebase with
       common numbering and releases,
     - supports 360 video and 3D audio, and prepares for VR content,
     - supports direct HDR and HDR tone-mapping,
     - updates the audio passthrough for HD Audio codecs,
     - allows browsing of local network drives like SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...
     - stores the passwords securely,
     - brings a new subtitle rendering engine, supporting ComplexTextLayout
       and font fallback to support multiple languages and fonts,
     - supports ChromeCast with the new renderer framework,
     - adds support for numerous new formats and codecs, including WebVTT,
       AV1, TTML, HQX, 708, Cineform, and many more,
     - improves Bluray support with Java menus, aka BD-J,
     - updates the macOS interface with major cleaning and improvements,
     - support HiDPI UI on Windows, with the switch to Qt5,
     - prepares the experimental support for Wayland on Linux, and
       switches to OpenGL by default on Linux.
    
  • 3.0.9.2
    VLC media player 3.0.9.2 'Vetinari'
    
    This is the tenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
    in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
    
    This updates contains various fixes and improvements
     - Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crash and bug fixes
     - Adds support for SMB2/3 shares
     - Various MP4 improvements
     - Multiple adaptive streaming fixes
     - Various subtitle improvements
     - Various OpenGL video output improvements
     - Better macOS Catalina support
     - Improved audio quality on chromecast
    
    It also fixes security issues, notably in the microdns service
    discovery stack.
    
    Check our NEWS file for more details!
    
    Vetinari is a major release changing a lot in the media engine of VLC.
    It is one of the largest release we've ever done.
    
    Notably, it:
     - activates hardware decoding on all platforms, of H.264 & H.265, 8 & 10bits,
       allowing 4K60 or even 8K decoding with little CPU consumption,
     - merges all the code from the mobile ports into the same codebase with
       common numbering and releases,
     - supports 360 video and 3D audio, and prepares for VR content,
     - supports direct HDR and HDR tone-mapping,
     - updates the audio passthrough for HD Audio codecs,
     - allows browsing of local network drives like SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...
     - stores the passwords securely,
     - brings a new subtitle rendering engine, supporting ComplexTextLayout
       and font fallback to support multiple languages and fonts,
     - supports ChromeCast with the new renderer framework,
     - adds support for numerous new formats and codecs, including WebVTT,
       AV1, TTML, HQX, 708, Cineform, and many more,
     - improves Bluray support with Java menus, aka BD-J,
     - updates the macOS interface with major cleaning and improvements,
     - support HiDPI UI on Windows, with the switch to Qt5,
     - prepares the experimental support for Wayland on Linux, and
       switches to OpenGL by default on Linux.