VLC

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VLC
Software Details:
Version: 3.0.3 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: The VideoLAN Team
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 222

Rating: 3.3/5 (Total Votes: 6)

VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

A video streaming app

The application can be used as a server to stream video in UDP/RTP Unicast or Multicast on IPv4 and IPv6 high-bandwidth networks. It also supports the HTTP, FTP and MMS protocols. Users will be able to use different video filters on movies, including deinterlace, crop, image wall, brightness, saturation, contrast, rotate, upside down, and logo overlay.

Supports a wide range of multimedia file formats

Among the input formats supported by VLC Media Player, we can mention MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/MP3, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, OGG/OGM/Annodex, MP4/MOV/3GPP, Matroska (MKV), WAV, DTS WAV, Raw DV, Raw AAC, Raw AC3/a52 audio, Raw DTS audio, and FLAC audio. The MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX 1/2/3, MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4, Sorenson (SVQ 1/3), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H263/H263i, MJPEG A/B and WMV 1/2 video codecs are supported by default.

Supports a wide range of subtitle formats

In addition, VLC Media Player supports many subtitle formats, including SVCD, CVD, DVB, OGM, Matroska, MicroDVD, VobSub, SubRIP, SubViewer (v1 & v2), SSA1-4, SAMI, and Vplayer. A command-line interface, as well as GTK+ and QT graphical user interfaces, and a web interface are provided. A RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) client, infrared support, remote control functionality, a Mozilla plugin, support for ID3 tags, CDDB CD information, CPU acceleration, and support for IGMPv3 and IPv6 protocols are also included.

The most popular media player

VLC Media Player is available in a Beta form on the Google Play Store for the Android platform, and in the last few years it became one of the most used media player applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

What is new in this release:

  • 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
  • macOS:
  • Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
  • Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
  • Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
  • 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

What is new in version :

  • Demuxers:
  • Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
  • Translations updates

What is new in version 2.2.6:

  • 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

What is new in version 2.2.4:

New in VLC 2.2.2 (February 7th, 2016)

What is new in version 2.2.2:

  • Access:
  • Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
  • Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
  • Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
  • Fix Windows directshow input freeze
  • Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
  • Demux:
  • Fix support for ms-dvr files
  • Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
  • HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
  • Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
  • Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
  • Fix MXF crashes on stop
  • Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
  • Decoders:
  • Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
  • Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
  • Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
  • Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
  • Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
  • Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
  • Audio output:
  • Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
  • Fix audio initialization on iOS
  • Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to be set manually by the user)
  • Fix pulseaudio latency computation
  • Fix alsa default device selection
  • Skins2:
  • Fix video control that fails to show up
  • Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
  • Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
  • Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
  • Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
  • OS X:
  • Support for OS X El Capitan
  • Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
  • Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
  • Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
  • Qt:
  • Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
  • Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
  • Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
  • Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
  • Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
  • Fix memory leaks
  • Video Output:
  • Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
  • Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
  • Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
  • Misc:
  • Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
  • Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
  • Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
  • Improve PNG encoding time
  • Fix some UPnP initialization lag
  • Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
  • Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
  • Fix custom snapshot sizes
  • Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
  • Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
  • Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
  • Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops, read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
  • Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
  • Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
  • Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
  • Translations:
  • Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
  • Update of most translations
  • libVLC:
  • Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted, libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
  • Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
  • Translations:
  • Update of most translations

What is new in version 2.2.1:

  • Codec:
  • Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
  • Fix some VP9 decoding
  • Fix flac crashes
  • Fix lpcm channel ordering
  • Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
  • Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
  • Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder
  • Fix AAC samplerate
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix MP4 chapters
  • Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
  • Fix crash when playing SPC files
  • Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
  • Revert to older ASX code
  • Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
  • Access:
  • Fix sftp read and close sockets
  • Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
  • Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
  • Audio output:
  • Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
  • Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
  • Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
  • OS X:
  • Fix numerous crashes in the UI
  • Fix video-wallpaper mode
  • Fix race when starting VLC from command line
  • Qt:
  • Fix recent items behaviour
  • Fix rotation filter activation
  • Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
  • Win32:
  • Timestamp the signature of the dlls
  • Fix extensions registration during install
  • Fix extensions dialog crash
  • Default to no DxVA decoding
  • libVLC:
  • fix libvlc_media_get_stats
  • Translations:
  • Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

What is new in version 2.1.5 / 2.2.0 RC2:

  • Core:
  • Fix compilation on OS/2
  • Access:
  • Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
  • Mac OS X audio output:
  • Fix channel ordering
  • Increase the buffersize
  • Decoders:
  • Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
  • Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
  • Fix PGS alignment in MKV
  • Qt Interface:
  • Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
  • Mac OS X Interface:
  • Correctly support video-on-top
  • Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
  • Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
  • Streaming:
  • Fix transcode when audio format changes
  • Security contents:
  • Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
  • Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
  • Translations:
  • Update British English

What is new in version 2.1.4:

  • Demuxers:
  • Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
  • Video Output:
  • Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
  • Mac OS X:
  • Fix DVD playback regression
  • Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
  • Fix hardware acceleration memleaks

What is new in version 2.1.3:

  • Core:
  • Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
  • Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
  • Access:
  • Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
  • Fix encrypted DVD playback
  • Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
  • Decoders:
  • Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
  • by updating codec libraries
  • Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
  • Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
  • Fix teletext crash on Windows
  • Demuxers:
  • Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
  • Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
  • Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
  • Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
  • Audio output:
  • Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
  • Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
  • Video Output:
  • Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
  • Fix transform off-by-one issue
  • Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
  • Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
  • Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
  • Stream output:
  • Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
  • Fix record file names
  • Qt interface:
  • Fix minimal size possible on start
  • Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
  • Fix a crash in the audio menu building
  • Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
  • Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
  • HTTP interface:
  • Fix album art display on Windows
  • Translations:
  • Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian BokmA¥l, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Simplified Chinese translations
  • Fix encoding for Windows installer translations

What is new in version 2.1.2:

  • Audio output:
  • Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
  • Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
  • Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external audio devices on OS X
  • Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
  • Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
  • Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
  • Decoders:
  • Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
  • Fix playback of some HEVC samples
  • Video filters:
  • Fix crash on deinterlace selection
  • Qt interface:
  • Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
  • Improve A-B loop control
  • Fix album art update when changing media
  • Mac OS X interface:
  • Add a language option in the interface
  • Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
  • Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
  • Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
  • Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
  • Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
  • Fix crash when closing window without decorations
  • Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
  • Win32 installer:
  • Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
  • Translations:
  • Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer, Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations

What is new in version 2.1.1:

  • Core:
  • Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
  • Fix recording
  • Fix some subtitles track selection
  • Decoders:
  • VP9 support in WebM
  • HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
  • Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
  • Support Speex in ogg files
  • Fix some .mov playlists support
  • Support Alac in mkv
  • Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
  • Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
  • Access:
  • Fix DVB options parsing
  • Fix DeckLink HDMI input
  • Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
  • Audio output:
  • Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
  • Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
  • Interfaces:
  • Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
  • Fix D-Bus volume setting
  • Qt:
  • Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
  • Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
  • Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
  • Fix play after drag'n drop
  • Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
  • Stream out:
  • Fix transcoding audio drift issues
  • Fix numerous audio encoding issues
  • Win32 installer:
  • Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
  • Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
  • Mac OS X interface:
  • Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
  • Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
  • Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
  • Fix crashes on proxy lookups
  • Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
  • Fixes on the streaming dialogs
  • Improves interface resizings
  • Translations:
  • Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian BokmA¥l, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek translations

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1 Comments
  • Jacovivo 9 Oct 16
    Impossible de modifier les préférences: à chaque fois, dans la version avec freeplayer (vlc-fbx), le message suivant apparaît: Impossible d'enregistrer la configuration:
    Impossible d'enregistrer le fichier des préférences
    Ainsi il n'est pas possible de saisir un mot de passe qui est demandé par le freeplayer à la connexion coté TV.
    Avez vous une idée de ce qu'il convient de faire? En outre je ne sais pas où est stockée l'information htto-password=**** car je ne trouve pas de fichier vlcrc-fbx, uniquement vclrc.
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