Versie 3.0.4 van VLC Media Player is uitgekomen. Deze opensource- en cross-platformmediaspeler kan diverse audio-, video- en streamingformaten afspelen, zonder dat hiervoor de desbetreffende codec hoeft te worden geïnstalleerd. In versie 3.0 is onder meer ondersteuning voor Chromecast toegevoegd. Verder is er hardwareversnelling voor het decoderen van 4k- en 8k-video, ondersteuning voor hdr, weergave van 360-gradenvideo's en 3d audio, toegang tot netwerklocaties via onder meer smb, ftp en nfs, hd audio-passthrough en ondersteuning voor BD-J-menu's. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:
Decoder:Demux:
- Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
- Decode AV1 streams
- Fix playback of low-fps files
- Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
- Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
- Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
- Fix crashes with LPCM streams
- Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
- Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
Audio Output:
- Improve FLV fps detection
- Fix some ogg/flac
- Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
- Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
- Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
- Fixes for MKV seeking
- Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
- Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
Video Output:
- Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
- Improve macOS audio performance
- Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
- Fix crashes on DirectSound output
Text renderer:
- Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
- Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
- Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
- Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
- Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
- Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
Misc:
- Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
- Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
- Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
- Fix some RTL rendering
Qt:
- Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
- Change the extension registration names on Windows
- Fix VLM 'now' date
- Fixes on the HTTPD server
- Fix on the NTservice registration
- Fix --stop-time option
- Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
- Fix subtitles alignment
- Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
- Fix detection SAT>IP servers
macOS:
- Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
Translations:
- macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
- Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
- Modernized and improved support for media keys
- Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
- Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
- Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
- Update of most translations
