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3.0.8 Fixes
- VLC 3.0.8 is the eight update of "Vetinari":
- Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
- Improve adaptive streaming support
- Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
- Improve audio output on macOS &iOS
- It also fixes security issues:
- 13 issues, including 5 buffer overflows we fixed. 11 CVEs were assigned and addressed.
- VLC 3.0 "Vetinari" is a new major update of VLC
- VLC 3.0 activates hardware decoding by default, to get 4K and 8K playback!
- It supports 10bits and HDR
- VLC supports 360 video and 3D audio, up to Ambisonics 3rd order
- Allows audio passthrough for HD audio codecs
- Can stream to Chromecast devices, even in formats not supported natively
- Can play Blu-Ray Java menus: BD-J
- VLC supports browsing of local network drives and NAS
- Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
- HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
- 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
- Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
- 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
- Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
- Subtitles size modification during playback
- Secure passwords storage
- Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
- HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
- HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
- MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
- Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
- HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox
- New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux
- BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
- Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
- OggSpots video decoder
- New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
- New BPG decoder based on libbpg
- TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
- TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant
- Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
- BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder
- Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708
- New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows
- Rework of the MP4 demuxer:
including 608/708, Flip4Mac, XiphQT, VP8, TTML mappings - Rework of the TS demuxer:
including Opus, SCTE-18, ARIB mappings - HD-DVD .evo support
- Rework of the PS demuxer, supporting HEVC, improving compatibility of broken files
- Improvements on MKV, including support for DVD-menus and FFv1, and faster seeking
- Support for Chained-Ogg, raw-HEVC and improvements for Flac
- Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI and VOC files
- Improved metadata formats in most file formats
- Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO
- Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support
- Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases
- Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF
- Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks
- Support for HTTP 2.0
- Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing
- Support for SRT streaming protocol
Stream output and encoding
- Support for streaming to Chromecast devices
- Support for VP8 and VP9 encoding through libvpx
- Support for streaming Opus inside TS
- Support for mp4 fragmented muxing
- Improvements for x265 encoding
Video outputs and filters
- OpenGL as Linux/BSD default video output
- Improvements in OpenGL output: direct displaying and HDR tonemapping
- Rework of the Android video outputs
- New Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes
- HDR10 support in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
- Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
- Video filter to convert between fps rates
- Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
- Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
- Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
Audio outputs and filters
- Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android output
- New Tizen audio output
- HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
- Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
- Rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
- SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
- Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
- Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
- Pitch shifting module
- Windows XP ➔ 10 RS3
- macOS 10.7 ➔ 10.13
- iOS 7 ➔ 11
- Android 2.3 ➔ 8.1
- Android TV, Chromebooks with Play Store
- Windows RT 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1
- Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox 1, Windows Store
- GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, *BSD
- Chromecast support from your phone
- HEVC hardware decoding using MediaCodec
- Android Auto with voice actions
- Available on all Android TV, Chromebooks & DeX
- Support for Picture-in-Picture
- Playlist files detection
- New bindings for C++ and C++/CX
- New input-from-memory to implement custom protocols or DRM
- Support for ChromeCast and Renderer targets
- Improve API for servers discovery
- New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings
- New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network
- Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata
- Improve EPG events API
- Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones
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