Thanks, trium.
Changes between 3.0.11 and 3.0.11.1: ------------------------------------
Demux: * Fixed HLS playlist update mechanism, unable to start in some cases. * Because of broken HLS servers, adaptive no longer considers Content-Type as authoritative. * Fixed handling of WEBM WebVTT subtitles * Workaround invalid ADTS in TS from Makito encoders * Fixed Opus when using avformat demuxer Decoders: * Fixed inverted explicit start/end positioning Service Discovery: * Fix listing of media on certain Panasonic recorders discovered via UPnP macOS: * Fix automatic playback resume with "Music" app * Fix possible freeze after pause, seek, unpause Contribs: * Updated gnutls to 3.6.14 * Updated libebml to 1.4.0 * Updated libmatroska to 1.6.0 * Updated mpg123 to 1.26.2
Changes between 3.0.11.1 and 3.0.12:
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Access: * Add new RIST access module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1) Access Output: * Add new RIST access output module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1) Demux: * Fixed adaptive's handling of resolution settings * Improve Bluray tracks support * Improve WMV seeking and DASH support * Fix crashes in AVI, MKV modules Audio output: * Fix audio distortion on macOS during start of playback Video Output: * Direct3D11: Fix some potential crashes when using video filters macOS: * Add native support for Apple Silicon / ARM-64 * Visual UI adaptations for macOS Big Sur * Fix displaying EQ bands in the UI depending on which frequency presets are set for the EQ in advanced preferences * Fix UI issues in bookmarks window Misc: * Several fixes in the web interface, including privacy and security improvements * Update YouTube and Vocaroo scripts * Fix rotation filter mouse handling * Update translations
Changes between 3.0.12 and 3.0.12.1: ------------------------------------
macOS: * 3.0.12.1 is the first release for Apple Silicon macs * Version bump to allow an automatic upgrade path
Changes between 3.0.12.1 and 3.0.13: ------------------------------------ Demux: * Adaptive: fix artefacts in HLS streams with wrong profiles/levels * Fix regression on some MP4 files for the audio track * Fix MPGA and ADTS probing in TS files * Fix Flac inside AVI files * Fix VP9/Webm artefacts when seeking Codec: * Support SSA text scaling * Fix rotation on Android rotation * Fix WebVTT subtitles that start at 00:00 Access: * Update libnfs to support NFSv4 * Improve SMB2 integration * Fix Blu-ray files using Unicode names on Windows * Disable mcast lookups on Android for RTSP playback Video Output: * Rework the D3D11 rendering wait, to fix choppiness on display Interfaces: * Fix VLC getting stuck on close on X11 (#21875) * Improve RTL on preferences on macOS * Add mousewheel horizontal axis control * Fix crash on exit on macOS * Fix sizing of the fullscreen controls on macOS Windows: * Fix subtitles/OSD under Windows XP <--- for Windows XP fans Misc: * Update translations * Improve MIDI fonts search on Linux * Update Soundcloud, Youtube, liveleak * Fix compilation with GCC11 * Fix input-slave option for subtitles
Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
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Platform support changes:
* 4.0.x requires:
- Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
- macOS 10.11 or later
- iOS 9 or later
- Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
- GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
* Windows on ARM is now supported
* Universal Windows is only supported for Windows 10 (not Windows 8 anymore)
Core:
* New output clock (internal):
- The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
- By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
* New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
* New player (vlc_player.h):
- Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
- One instance is used to play subsequent medias
- Allow multiple track selection
- Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
* New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
- Browse local network and service discoveries
* New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
- Replace the previous one
- Flat, new random implementation
- Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
* Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
Audio output:
* ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
Demuxer:
* Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
* Support for DASH WebM
* Support for DVBSUB in mkv
* Support for DAV video files
* Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
* Support chapters in mp3 files
* Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
Codecs:
* Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
* WebVTT encoder
* Remove iomx support for Android
* WebP image decoding
* Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
* Support for 16-bit greyscale
* Support IMM4 decoder
* Improve 708 decoder
* Support AGM decoder
* Support VP4 decoder
* Add NVDEC hardware decoder
* Remove SDL_image support
Access:
* Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
* Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
* Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol
* Added support for the Gopher Protocol
* Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
* Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
* Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
* Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
* Support for YoutubeDL (where available).
Access output:
* Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
* Added support for HTTP PUT (HTTP upload)
Video output:
* Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
* Remove aa plugin
* Remove evas plugin
* Remove omxil_vout plugin
* Remove RealRTSP plugin
* Remove Real demuxer plugin
* Fix washed out black on NVIDIA cards with Direct3D9
Audio filter:
* Add RNNoise recurrent neural network denoiser
Video filter:
* Update yadif
* Remove remote OSD plugin
Stream output:
* New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
* Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
Muxers:
* MP4 files are no longer faststart by default
Service discovery:
* Support Renderer discovery with avahi
macOS:
* Remove Growl notification support
* Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
appleOS:
* Improved proxy configuration handling
info:
vlc 3.0.12.1 + vlc 3.0.13 seems not to be for windows
VLC Media Player 3.0.14 fixes broken Windows automatic updater
Quote<div class="ipsQuote_contents ipsClearfix" data-gramm="false"> <p> VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.14 to fix an issue affecting Window users and causing the software's auto-updater not to launch the new version's installer automatically. </p> <p> "VLC users on Windows might encounter issues when trying to auto update VLC from version 3.0.12 and 3.0.13," VideoLan explained. "We are publishing version 3.0.14 to address this problem for future updates." </p> </div>
@hazelnutthanks a lot ?
this window was showing me by searching for updates manually
Quote<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 3.0.14 "Vetinari". </p> <p align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> <span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:22pt;font-weight:600;color:#c80000;">Please READ!</span> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> <span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:12pt;font-weight:600;color:#1b1c2a;">The upgrade you are doing will not launch the installer, because of a bug from our team. We are extremely sorry about that.</span> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> <span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:12pt;font-weight:600;color:#1b1c2a;">You will need to manually launch from your temp folder after the download.</span> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px;"> <span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:14pt;font-weight:600;color:#1b1c2a;">This upgrades fixes </span><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:14pt;font-weight:600;color:#ff0000;">security</span><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:14pt;font-weight:600;color:#810e31;"> issues </span><span style="font-family:'Noto Sans';font-size:14pt;font-weight:600;color:#1b1c2a;">in the updater and in the application. Please update.</span> </p> </div>
Quote<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> </p> <h2> only for Windows users </h2> <h3> Short version: </h3> <ul><li> - versions 3.0.12 to 3.0.13 are <b>not</b> able to update automatically anymore, and will <b>require</b> user action </li> <li> - versions 3.0.11 and earlier should update automatically to 3.0.14 </li> </ul><h3> Description: </h3> <p> This notice applies to VLC 3.0.13 and VLC 3.0.12 users. Due to a mistake introduced in the automatic updater code, updates will be downloaded, verified for integrity, but will not be installed. This is bad and we would like to apologize for this. </p> <h3> Post mortem explanation: </h3> <p> On May 10<sup>th</sup> 2021, the VideoLAN organization released VLC 3.0.13, and enabled auto updates. This usually would be fairly straightforward, a prompt would appear informing you that an update is available, you click download and install, and that would be the end of it. However and unfortunately, for this particular update, a few additional tedious (if not painful) steps will be necessary. The issue was introduced in 3.0.12, but it didn't become obvious until we started rolling out 3.0.13. While the issue was fixed for 3.0.14, we can't rely on that fix for people who've installed 3.0.12 already. </p> <p> </p> </div>
Here is a link to the VideoLAN page that trium has quoted from which gives more instructions on how to update to VLC 3.0.14.
Basically you have to update to 3.0.14 by doing a new install, or if you have already downloaded the update through VLC itself it tells you where to find it so you can run it manually:
I just ran the 3.14 installer as it shows in my link to the Bleepingcomputer article above .
Not a new install, it just overwrote the previous install as it usually does.
I hardly ever update from within the program itself and always run the installer over the top instead.
I tried it from inside VLC itself and got the warning as per triums' first quote.
It downloaded the installer and then I had to go to %TEMP% in File Explorer to double click it to install.
For the non-technical:
%temp% is simply Windows shorthand for your Windows temporary folder, you can type it in instead of having to type the full pathname. (You can use upper or lower case).
It typically takes you to- C:\Users\{<em>yourusername}</em>\AppData\Local\Temp
As I said, just download the installer from VLC website, double click it and it will install over the top of your previous build.
No need for going into TEMP etc.
I always use PortableApps VLC Portable, which is always a manual download and then install
Changes between 3.0.13 and 3.0.14: ---------------------------------- Core: * Fix double loading of slave input * Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version
Changes between 3.0.14 and 3.0.15: ----------------------------------
Core: * Add Opus & Alac wave format mappings Access: * Fix opening DVD folders with non-ascii characters
Demux: * Fix asf regression with broadcast streams * MP4: Fix audio drop on seek Video Output: * Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles * Fix delays when seeking with D3D11 Text renderer: * Improve freetype fonts outlining Misc: * Fix GnuTLS support for Windows XP <---- for xp-fans
Changes between 3.0.15 and 3.0.16: ---------------------------------- Video Output: * Fix a D3D11 crash on Windows 8/8.1 Access: * Fix RTSP server timeout handling Interfaces: * macOS: Add touchbar support Misc * Multiple settings improvements