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VLC Media Player 3.0.1

  -  44.67 MB  -  Open Source
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What's new in this version:

Core:
- Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
- Fix crash on exit on Windows

Video output:
- Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
- Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
- Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
- Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
- Fix pink screen on Windows

Decoder:
- Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
- Enable Cineform HD in avcodec

Hardware Decoder:
- macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
- android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
- Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
- Improve Direct3D11 memory usage

Demux:
- Improve MKV seeking speed
- Fix xspf base URL handling
- Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
- Fix adaptive http redirections
- Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
- Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
- Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
- Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
- Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
- Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes

Packetizer:
- Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video

Stream Output:
- Improve chromecast loading speed
- Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
- Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
- Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
- Fix wrong first cover art when casting
- Fix casting to VP9

macOS Interface:
- Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
- Auto-layout improvements
- Remove misleading playback warning indicator
- Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
- Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
- Fix MKV files association
- Fix chromecast audio detection

Qt Interface:
- Improve scaling on HiDPI displays

Snap:
- Improve interface look and feel

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