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VLC Media Player 3.0.22

  -  85.01 MB  -  Open Source

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What's new in this version:

Core:
- Assume subpictures are in SDR by default

Windows:
- Add Windows ARM64 builds (Minimum Windows 10 RS5 17763 / 1809)
- Fix support for Windows XP SP3
- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows
- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP

Decoders:
- Fix Opus channel mapping
- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video
- Add dav1d-all-layers option
- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing
- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4
- Disable decoding using libdca, libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec

Demuxers:
- Add support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option
- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska
- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck
- Handle pictures in FLAC
- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally
- Cut QNap title on first invalid character
- Fix display of certain JPEG files
- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)
- Multiple fixes in MPEG-TS
- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others)
- Input:
- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS
- Interface:
- Qt: Add option to use dark palette
- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5
- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider
- macOS: fix crashes when drag'n drop items in the playlist
- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file

Service Discovery:
- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback

Video Output:
- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi
- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP

Video Filter:
- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)
- Improve visualization of low frequencies in spectrogram

Contrib:
- Update amf to 1.4.34
- Update dav1d to 1.5.1
- Update FFmpeg to 4.4.5
- Update freetype to 2.13.1
- Update gettext to 0.22.5
- Update gcrypt to 1.10.1
- Update glew to 2.1.0
- Update gmp to 6.3.0
- Udpate gnutls to 3.8.10
- Update harfbuzz to 11.5.0
- Update iconv to 1.17
- Update libarchive to 3.8.0 including support for RAR 5.0
- Update libass to 0.17.3
- Update libbluray to 1.4.0
- Update libmatroska to 1.7.0
- Update libogg to 1.3.6
- Update libpng to 1.6.50
- Update libvpx to 1.15.2
- Update lua to 5.1.5
- Update openjpeg to 2.5.0
- Update orc to 0.4.33
- Update srt to 1.5.3
- Update taglib to 1.13.1
- Update zlib to 1.3.1
- and more 3rd party updates
- libmpeg2, libdca and liba52 are no longer build by default
- build ragel inside harfbuzz if necessary

Misc:
- gnutls: remove manual DH prime bits setting
- Avoid very large fonts in portrait mode
- Update of most translations
- Many thanks to the Sovereign Tech Agency, and especially their Sovereign Tech Fund program, for helping VLC sustainability and safety.
- Thanks to oss-fuzz as well for their help and resources to find issues
- Thanks to their support, 3.0.22 becomes the VLC release with the most security fixes ever

Security:
- Heap Buffer Overflow READ in TY, NSV, CVDsub, SPU, Subrip, TX3G, MPJEG demuxers and decoders
- Heap Buffer Overflow Write in RLE, MP4, TX3G demuxers and decoders
- Assert failure in AVI, MP4 demuxers and Core
- Null dereferences in CSS, Flac and VTT modules
- Use-after Free in SVG decoder
- Crash in Subtitles core, in jpeg2 inside TS
- Multiple crashes and OOB in CEA-708 subtitles
- OOB read on Oggspot, MP4
- Multiple leaks in MKV, ASF/WMV, CAF and PS demuxers, Ogg, Theora, Vorbis,
- WebVTT and SVCD decoders
- Busy loop in WebVTT
- (The list above is not exhaustive)