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VLC media player 3.0.23 'Vetinari'

This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22, fixing issues
mostly on Windows for image display, security warnings, OpenGL.
It also adds a small feature on audio codec information, and fixes extra
security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.

3.0.22 was large, here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:

This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:
- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)
- Add Windows ARM64 builds
- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions
- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows
- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska
- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)
- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz

and:
- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5
- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck
- Handle pictures in FLAC
- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally
- Cut QNap title on first invalid character
- Fix display of certain JPEG files
- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)
- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others)
- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS
- Fix Opus channel mapping
- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video
- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing
- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4
- Disable decoding using libdca, libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec
- Add dav1d-all-layers option
- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP
- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option
- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback
- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi
- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP
- Qt: Add option to use dark palette
- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5
- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider
- macOS: fix crashes when drag'n drop items in the playlist
- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file

Many thanks to the Sovereign Tech Agency (https://www.sovereign.tech/), and
especially their Sovereign Tech Fund program, for helping VLC sustainability and safety.
Thanks to oss-fuzz as well for their help and resources to find issues.
Thanks to their support, 3.0.22 becomes the VLC release with the most security fixes ever!