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VLC Media Player 2.2.1

  -  33.7 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of VLC Media Player 2.2.1.


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What's new in this version:

Codec
- Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
- Fix some VP9 decoding
- Fix FLAC crashes
- Fix LPCM channel ordering
- Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
- Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
- Fix potential buffer overflow in Schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
- Fix AAC samplerate

Demuxers
- Fix MP4 chapters
- Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
- Fix crash when playing SPC files
- Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
- Revert to older ASX code
- Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio

Access
- Fix sftp read and close sockets
- Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
- Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
- Audio output

Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
- Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
- Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files

OS X
- Fix numerous crashes in the UI
- Fix video-wallpaper mode
- Fix race when starting VLC from command line

Qt
- Fix recent items behaviour
- Fix rotation filter activation
- Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard

Win32
- Timestamp the signature of the dlls
- Fix extensions registration during install
- Fix extensions dialog crash
- Default to no DxVA decoding

libVLC
- fix libvlc_media_get_stats

Translations
- Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations