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VLC Media Player for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    VLC Media Player 3.0.21 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.7 or later

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  • Author / Product

    VideoLAN team / External Link

  • Filename

    vlc-3.0.21-universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    1f05762982e2f31d2aed621f1704d515

VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC for macOS.

Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.

VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported.

Features and Highlights
  • Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
  • Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
  • Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
  • Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
  • Resamplers for higher quality audio.
  • Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
  • Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
  • Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
  • Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
  • Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
  • Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp etc.
  • Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
  • CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
  • And many more features...
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What's new in this version:

Decoders:
- Improve Opus ambisonic support
- Fix some ASS subtitle rendering issues
- Fix Opus in MP4 behaviour
- Fix VAAPI hw decoding with some drivers

Input:
- Add support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110
- Fix some HLS Adaptive Streaming not working in audio-only mode

Video Output:
- Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs
- The D3D11 HDR option can also turn on/off HDR for all sources regardless of
- the display
- Improve subtitles rendering on Apple platforms of notably Asian languages
- by correcting font fallback lookups

Video Filter:
- New AMD VQ Enhancer filter
- Add D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate HDR from SDR sources

Audio Output:
- Fix regression on macOS causing crashes when using audio devices
- with more than 9 channels

Services Discovery:
- Fix exposed UPnP directory URL schemes to be compliant with RFC 3986

Contrib:
- Update FFmpeg to 4.4.4
- Update dav1d to 1.4.2
- Update libvpx to 1.14.1

libVLC:
- the HWND passed to libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd must have the WS_CLIPCHILDREN
- style set
- Fix crashes when using caopengllayer

Misc:
- Fix various warnings, leaks and potential crashes
- Fix security integer overflow in MMS module

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