vlc media player

[trium]

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

[trium]

info:

vlc 3.0.12.1 + vlc 3.0.13 seems not to be for windows

[hazelnut]

VLC Media Player 3.0.14 fixes broken Windows automatic updater

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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.

"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."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/vlc-media-player-3014-fixes-broken-windows-automatic-updater/

[trium]

@hazelnutthanks a lot

this window was showing me by searching for updates manually

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VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 3.0.14 "Vetinari".

Please READ!

 

The upgrade you are doing will not launch the installer, because of a bug from our team. We are extremely sorry about that.

 

You will need to manually launch from your temp folder after the download.

 

This upgrades fixes security issues in the updater and in the application. Please update.

 

 

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only for Windows users

Short version:

• - versions 3.0.12 to 3.0.13 are not able to update automatically anymore, and will require user action
• - versions 3.0.11 and earlier should update automatically to 3.0.14

Description:

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.

Post mortem explanation:

On May 10^th 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.

 

 

[nukecad]

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:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.12-update.html

[hazelnut]

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.

[nukecad]

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\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\Temp

[hazelnut]

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.

https://www.videolan.org

[Andavari]

I always use PortableApps VLC Portable, which is always a manual download and then install

[trium]

Changes between 3.0.13 and 3.0.14:
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Core:
 * Fix double loading of slave input
 * Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version

[trium]

Changes between 3.0.14 and 3.0.15:
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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 

[trium]

Changes between 3.0.15 and 3.0.16:
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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