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|27 December 2018|VLC 3.0.5|VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.5 release, a new minor release of the 3.0 branch.<br />This release notably improves the macOS mojave support, adds a new AV1 decoder and fixes numerous issues with hardware acceleration on Windows. More information available <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.5.html">here</a>.
|31 August 2018|VLC 3.0.4|VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.4 release, a new minor release of the 3.0 branch.<br />This release notably improves the video outputs on most OSes, supports AV1 codec, and fixes numerous small issues on all OSes and Platforms. More information available <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.4.html">here</a>.<br />Update for all Windows versions is strongly advised.
|31 July 2018|VLC 3.0.13 for Android|VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.0.13 on Android and Android TV. This release fixes numerous issues from the 3.0.x branch and improves stability.
|20 July 2018|VLC 3.1.0 for WinRT and iOS|VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.1.0 on iOS and on Windows App (WinRT) platforms. This release brings hardware encoding and ChromeCast on those 2 mobile platforms. It also updates the libvlc to 3.0.3 in those platforms.
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<center><h1 class='bigtitle' style="padding-bottom: 3px;">VLC <b>3.0</b> <em>Vetinari</em></h1>
<div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: grey;">VLC 3.0.4 is the second version of the "Vetinari" branch of our popular media player.</div>
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<h2 class="subtext2" id="text_1">Hardware accelerated decoding for HD and UHD</h2>
<h2 class="subtext2" style="display: none;" id="text_2">Supports HDR and HDR tone-mapping</h2>
<h2 class="subtext2" style="display: none;" id="text_3">360° video navigation</h2>
<h2 class="subtext2" style="display: none;" id="text_4">Chromecast streaming</h2>
<h2 class="subtext2" style="display: none;" id="text_5">Optimized for iPhone X</h2>
<h2 class="subtext2" style="display: none;" id="text_6">Faster version for UWP and XBox One</h2>
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<li style="padding-bottom: 8px;">VLC 3.0.4 is the fourth update of "Vetinari"</li>
<li>Support for the AV1 codec,
<li>Improvements for HEVC decoding on Intel GPUs on Windows,
<li>Improvements for low fps video, AVI, FLV, Ogg/Flac and RAR files,
<li>Improvements for macOS audio performance,
<li>Security issues fixed, notably on Windows to correctly activate ASLR,
<li>Numerous fixes for crashes, leaks and potential security issues,
<li>Fixes for the video output on Windows XP, macOS, Vista and OpenGL,
<li>Fixes for SAT>IP, RTSP, VLM, ChromeCast and webserving.
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<li style="padding-bottom: 8px;">VLC 3.0 "Vetinari" is a new major update of VLC</li>
<li>VLC 3.0 activates <b>hardware decoding</b> by default, to get <a href="https://vimeo.com/254723528">4K and 8K playback!</a></li>
<li>It supports <b>10bits</b> and <b>HDR</b></li>
<li>VLC supports <b>360 video</b> and <b>3D audio</b>, up to Ambisonics 3rd order</li>
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<li>Allows <b>audio passthrough</b> for HD audio codecs</li>
<li>Can stream to <b>Chromecast</b> devices, even in formats not supported natively</li>
<li>Can play <b>Blu-Ray Java menus</b>: BD-J</li>
<li>VLC supports browsing of <b>local network</b> drives and NAS</li>
<div class="feat-margin-left extra-info-link2 padding-top pull-right">Read the <a href="/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS"/>Changelog</a>.</div>
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<h1 style='margin-bottom: 12px;'> 3.0 <?php echo _("Features"); ?></h1>
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<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Core"); ?></div>
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<li>Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
<li>HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
<li>12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
<li>Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
<li>360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
<li>Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
<li>Subtitles size modification during playback
<li>Secure passwords storage
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<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Acceleration"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Hardware decoding and display on all platforms</li>
<li>HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11</li>
<li>HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)</li>
<li>MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android</li>
<li>Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2</li>
<li>HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox</li>
<li>New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux</li>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Codecs"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray</li>
<li>Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders</li>
<li>OggSpots video decoder</li>
<li>New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123</li>
<li>New BPG decoder based on libbpg</li>
<li>TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders</li>
<li>TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant</li>
<li>Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support</li>
<li>BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder</li>
<li>Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708</li>
<li>New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows</li>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Containers"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Rework of the MP4 demuxer:<br /> including 608/708, Flip4Mac, XiphQT, VP8, TTML mappings</li>
<li>Rework of the TS demuxer:<br /> including Opus, SCTE-18, ARIB mappings </li>
<li>HD-DVD .evo support</li>
<li>Rework of the PS demuxer, supporting HEVC, improving compatibility of broken files</li>
<li>Improvements on MKV, including support for DVD-menus and FFv1, and faster seeking</li>
<li>Support for Chained-Ogg, raw-HEVC and improvements for Flac</li>
<li>Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI and VOC files</li>
<li>Improved metadata formats in most file formats</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Protocols and devices"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO</li>
<li>Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support</li>
<li>Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases</li>
<li>Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF</li>
<li>Support SAT&gt;IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks</li>
<li>Support for HTTP 2.0</li>
<li>Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing</li>
<li>Support for SRT streaming protocol</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Stream output and encoding"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Support for streaming to Chromecast devices
<li>Support for VP8 and VP9 encoding through libvpx
<li>Support for streaming Opus inside TS
<li>Support for mp4 fragmented muxing
<li>Improvements for x265 encoding
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Video outputs and filters"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>OpenGL as Linux/BSD default video output</li>
<li>Improvements in OpenGL output: direct displaying and HDR tonemapping</li>
<li>Rework of the Android video outputs</li>
<li>New Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes</li>
<li>HDR10 support in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update</li>
<li>Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL</li>
<li>Video filter to convert between fps rates</li>
<li>Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API</li>
<li>Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage</li>
<li>Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Audio outputs and filters"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android output</li>
<li>New Tizen audio output</li>
<li>HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)</li>
<li>Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio</li>
<li>Rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS</li>
<li>SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)</li>
<li>Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order</li>
<li>Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams</li>
<li>Pitch shifting module</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("OS Versions"); ?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Windows XP ➔ 10 RS3</li>
<li>macOS 10.7 ➔ 10.13</li>
<li>iOS 7 ➔ 11</li>
<li>Android 2.3 ➔ 8.1</li>
<li>Android TV, Chromebooks with Play Store</li>
<li>Windows RT 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1</li>
<li>Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox 1, Windows Store</li>
<li>GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, *BSD</li>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Android specific")?></div>
<div class='clearme'>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Chromecast support from your phone</li>
<li>HEVC hardware decoding using MediaCodec</li>
<li>Android Auto with voice actions</li>
<li>Available on all Android TV, Chromebooks & DeX</li>
<li>Support for Picture-in-Picture</li>
<li>Playlist files detection</li>
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<div class='audienceCallout'>VLC SDK - libVLC</div>
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<div>
<ul>
<li>New bindings for C++ and C++/CX</li>
<li>New input-from-memory to implement custom protocols or DRM
<li>Support for ChromeCast and Renderer targets
<li>Improve API for servers discovery
<li>New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings
<li>New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network
<li>Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata
<li>Improve EPG events API
<li>Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones
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