VLC Media Player - VideoLAN

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  • VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player 2.0.4


    2.0.4 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
    2.0.4 introduces an important number of fixes and improvements for all playback, notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud.
    2.0.4 adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams, and MSS playback through DMO libraries.
    2.0.4 fixes numerous issues, including audio device selection, Qt and Mac OS interface, security issues and Windows wallpaper mode...
    With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
    2.0.4 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 300 commits on top of 2.0.3.


    Version history:


    Audio Output:
    * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
    * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
    * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
    * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
    * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X


    Access:
    * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
    * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
    * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake


    Codecs:
    * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
    * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
    * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
    * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
    * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding


    Demuxers:
    * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
    * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
    * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
    * Support Youtube live streams


    Windows:
    * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8


    Qt:
    * Fix media info dialog update
    * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
    * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
    * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
    * Fix album art display at start


    Mac OS X:
    * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
    * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
    * Fix menus display and behavior
    * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
    * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
    * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
    * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
    * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter


    Miscellaneous:
    * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
    * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
    * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
    * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
    * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
    * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
    * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
    * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
    * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates


    Translations:
    * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Sl***k, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
    * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian


    Windows, 2.0.4 Final - 32-bit
    Linux, 2.0.4 Final
    Mac, 2.0.4 Final

    • Official Post

    VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player 2.2.5.1


    Latest version

    2.2.5.1 (May 12, 2017)



    Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:

    --------------------------------


    Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments


    Translations updates


    Misc:

    * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts

    * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder

    * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers

    * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer

    * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer

    * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers

    * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes


    Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:

    --------------------------------


    Decoder:

    * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad

    * Fix video scaling in VDPAU

    * Fix playback of palettized codecs

    * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)

    * Fix AES3 16bps decoding

    * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)

    * Fix SCTE-27 colors


    Demuxer:

    * Fix possible ASF integer overflow

    * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors

    * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows

    * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow

    * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops

    * Fix flac null-pointer dereference

    * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks


    Video output:

    * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers

    * Fix screenshots size


    Access:

    * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows

    * Fix FTP scan string injection

    * Fix HTTP size handling


    Mux:

    * Fix mp4 drift


    Lua:

    * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts


    Audio filter:

    * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter


    Windows:

    * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.

    * Fix uninstaller path handling

    * Fix taskbar buttons behavior


    MacOS:

    * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra

    * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items


    vlc-2.2.5.1-win32.exe

    vlc-2.2.5.1-win64.exe



    • Official Post

    VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player 2.2.6


    Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:

    ----------------------------------

    Video output:

    * Fix systematic green line on nvidia

    * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling


    Demuxer:

    * Fix heap buffer overflows


    vlc-2.2.6-win32.exe

    vlc-2.2.6-win64.exe

    • Official Post

    VLC media player 3.0.2


    vlc-3.0.2-win32.exe

    vlc-3.0.2-win64.exe

    • Official Post

    VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player 3.0.3

    Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:

    --------------------------------
    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


    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

  • master G

    Added the Label Windows Tools
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    Changed the title of the thread from “VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player” to “VLC Media Player - VideoLAN”.

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