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Changes between 3.0.19 and 3.0.20:
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Video Output:
- Fix green line in fullscreen in D3D11 video output
- Fix crash with some AMD drivers old versions
- Fix events propagation issue when double-clicking with mouse wheel
Decoders:
- Fix crash when AV1 hardware decoder fails
Interface:
- Fix annoying disappearance of the Windows fullscreen controller
Demuxers:
- Fix potential security issue (OOB Write) on MMS:// by checking user size bounds
Changes between 3.0.18 and 3.0.19:
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Core:
* Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios
Demux:
* Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
* Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
* Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
* Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
* Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
* Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
* Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
* Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
* Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
* Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
* Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information
Decoders:
* Multiple fixes on AAC handling
* Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
* Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
* Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
* Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
* Fix rawvid video in NV12
* Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
* Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering
Video Output:
* Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
* Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
* Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
* Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
* Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS
Input:
* Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts
Contribs:
* Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
* Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
* Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass
Misc:
* Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
* Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
* Fix GOOM visualization
* Fixes for Youtube playback
* Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
* Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
* Fix opening files in read-only mode
* Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
* Fix some crashes on macOS when switching application
* Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
* Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
* Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
* Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs (CVE-2023-46814)
* Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs
Translations:
* Update of most translations
* New translations to Esperanto, Interlingue, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Odia, Samoan and Swahili
Changes between 3.0.18-rc2 and 3.0.18:
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macOS:
* Fix audio device listing with non-latin names
* Update some translations
Misc:
* Fix rendering and performance issue with older GPUs
Contribs:
* Update aom
Changes between 3.0.18-rc and 3.0.18-rc2:
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Codec/Demux:
* Add support for Y16 chroma
* Fix build of gme plugin
Lua:
* Fix script for vocaroo
* Fix script for youtube to allow throttled playback
(Note: Restrictions on youtube still prevent unthrottled playback)
Service Discovery:
* Fix UPnP regression on Windows
Video Output:
* Fix video placement with caopengllayer
Misc:
* Fix password search in kwallet module
Contribs:
* Update FFmpeg
Changes between 3.0.17.4 and 3.0.18-rc:
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Demux:
* Major adaptive streaming update, notably for multiple timelies and webvtt
* Fix seeking with some fragmented MP4 files
* Add support for DVBSub inside MKV
* Fix some Flac files that could not be played
* Improve seeking in Ogg files
Decoders:
* Fix DxVA/D3D11 crashes on HEVC files with bogus references
* Fix libass storage size and crash
* Fix decoding errors on macOS hw decoding on some HEVC files
Video Output:
* Fix color regression with VAAPI/iOS and OpenGL output
* Fix some resizing issues with OpenGL on GLX/EGL/X11/XV
* Fix Direct3d9 texture stretching
* Fix 10-bit accelerated video filters on macOS
Playlist:
* Avoid playlist liveloop on failed/tiny items (temporize EOS bursts)
Misc:
* Misc fixes for the extension UI on macOS
* Improve SMBv1 and SMBv2 behaviours
* Improve FTP compatibility
* Support RISC-V
* Fix AVI muxing for Windows Media Player compatibility
* Fix seeking speed on macOS
Contribs:
* update FFmpeg, bluray, upnp, pthread, x265, freetype, libsmb2, aom, dav1d,
libass, libxml2 (contains CVE), dvdread, harfbuzz, zlib, gme, nettle, GnuTLS,
mpg123, speex, bluray, libvpx
Changes between 3.0.17.3 and 3.0.17.4:
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Service Discovery:
* Fix UPnP regression on Windows
Changes between 3.0.17.2 and 3.0.17.3:
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Demux:
* Fix a regression causing a lack of audio in adaptive streaming
Changes between 3.0.17 and 3.0.17.2:
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Interface:
* Qt: Fix right click support on video
Misc:
* Update YouTube script
Changes between 3.0.16 and 3.0.17:
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Core:
* Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
* Allow brackets in path part of URLs
Access:
* Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
* Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
* Improve HTTP2 memory usage
* Improve AVCapture module
* Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
* Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
* Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)
Decoders/Packetizers:
* Add support for DTS LBR
* Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
* Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
* Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
* Fix crashes with VP9 streams
* Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
* Fix playback of live AV1 streams
Audio Output:
* iOS/tvOS: add support for spatial audio
* macOS: fix some channels ordering for > 5.1 channels
* Android: rework audio volume management
Video Output:
* Fix a D3D11 crash when the stream changes aspect ratio
Demux:
* Major overhaul of the adaptive streaming stack
* Support for DAV video files
* Add WebP image mapping
* Fix missing audio start of Opus audio in MKV/WebM
* Fix an infinite loop in MP4
* Fix attachments extractions in ogg files
* Support Uncompressed audio in mp4 (ISO/IEC 23003-5)
* Fix some lip sync issue in rare MPEG-TS streams
Interface:
* Qt/macOS: Fixup user provided URLs
* Add safe area handling on macOS
* Qt: improve preferences search
* Qt: fix --no-mouse-events option
Misc:
* Update YouTube script
* Fix Icecast directory parsing which could lead to missing entries
* Improve UPnP compatibility with some servers
3rd party libraries (contrib):
* Update FFmpeg to 4.4
* Update libflac to 1.3.4 to fix CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561
* Update libsmb2 to fix invalid UTF-8 encoding of some filenames
* Update taglib to fix corruptions when editing some OGG metadata
* Update dav1d to 0.9.2
* Update fribidi to 1.0.11
* Update freetype to 2.11.1
* Update libass to 0.15.2
* Drop pthreadGC2 in favor of winpthreads
* Enable Java support for blurays on Apple M1
* Update libsrt to 1.4.4
* Update twolame to 0.4.0
* Update mpg123 to 1.29.3
* Update libnfs to 5.0.1
* Update libarchive to 3.6.0
* Update AOM encoder to 3.1.1
Changes between 3.0.15 and 3.0.16:
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Video Output:
* Fix a D3D11 crash on Windows 8/8.1
Access:
* Fix RTSP server timeout handling
Interfaces:
* macOS: Add touchbar support
Misc
* Multiple settings improvements
Changes between 3.0.14 and 3.0.15:
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Core:
* Add Opus & Alac wave format mappings
Access:
* Fix opening DVD folders with non-ascii characters
Demux:
* Fix asf regression with broadcast streams
* MP4: Fix audio drop on seek
Video Output:
* Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles
* Fix delays when seeking with D3D11
Text renderer:
* Improve freetype fonts outlining
Misc:
* Fix GnuTLS support for Windows XP
Changes between 3.0.13 and 3.0.14:
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Core:
* Fix double loading of slave input
* Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version
installer
Changes between 3.0.12.1 and 3.0.13:
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Demux:
* Adaptive: fix artefacts in HLS streams with wrong profiles/levels
* Fix regression on some MP4 files for the audio track
* Fix MPGA and ADTS probing in TS files
* Fix Flac inside AVI files
* Fix VP9/Webm artefacts when seeking
Codec:
* Support SSA text scaling
* Fix rotation on Android rotation
* Fix WebVTT subtitles that start at 00:00
Access:
* Update libnfs to support NFSv4
* Improve SMB2 integration
* Fix Blu-ray files using Unicode names on Windows
* Disable mcast lookups on Android for RTSP playback
Video Output:
* Rework the D3D11 rendering wait, to fix choppiness on display
Interfaces:
* Fix VLC getting stuck on close on X11 (#21875)
* Improve RTL on preferences on macOS
* Add mousewheel horizontal axis control
* Fix crash on exit on macOS
* Fix sizing of the fullscreen controls on macOS
Windows:
* Fix subtitles/OSD under Windows XP
Misc:
* Update translations
* Improve MIDI fonts search on Linux
* Update Soundcloud, Youtube, liveleak
* Fix compilation with GCC11
* Fix input-slave option for subtitles
Changes between 3.0.12 and 3.0.12.1:
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macOS:
* 3.0.12.1 is the first release for Apple Silicon macs
* Version bump to allow an automatic upgrade path
Changes between 3.0.11.1 and 3.0.12:
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Access:
* Add new RIST access module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
Access Output:
* Add new RIST access output module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
Demux:
* Fixed adaptive's handling of resolution settings
* Improve Bluray tracks support
* Improve WMV seeking and DASH support
* Fix crashes in AVI, MKV modules
Audio output:
* Fix audio distortion on macOS during start of playback
Video Output:
* Direct3D11: Fix some potential crashes when using video filters
macOS:
* Add native support for Apple Silicon / ARM-64
* Visual UI adaptations for macOS Big Sur
* Fix displaying EQ bands in the UI depending on which frequency
presets are set for the EQ in advanced preferences
* Fix UI issues in bookmarks window
Misc:
* Several fixes in the web interface, including privacy and security
improvements
* Update YouTube and Vocaroo scripts
* Fix rotation filter mouse handling
* Update translations
Changes between 3.0.11 and 3.0.11.1:
----------------------------------
Demux:
* Fixed HLS playlist update mechanism, unable to start
in some cases.
* Because of broken HLS servers, adaptive no longer
considers Content-Type as authoritative.
* Fixed handling of WEBM WebVTT subtitles
* Workaround invalid ADTS in TS from Makito encoders
* Fixed Opus when using avformat demuxer
Decoders:
* Fixed inverted explicit start/end positioning
Service Discovery:
* Fix listing of media on certain Panasonic recorders discovered via UPnP
macOS:
* Fix automatic playback resume with "Music" app
* Fix possible freeze after pause, seek, unpause
Contribs:
* Updated gnutls to 3.6.14
* Updated libebml to 1.4.0
* Updated libmatroska to 1.6.0
* Updated mpg123 to 1.26.2
Changes between 3.0.10 and 3.0.11:
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Access:
* rtp descriptor leak on error fix
Demux:
* Fixed regression with some encrypted HLS streams
* Live HLS delay until first update fix
* HLS rendition switch regression fix
* Fix imprecise m4a seek
Decoder:
* Fixed missing captions with some capture cards
Audio filters:
* soxr resampling fixes
Contribs:
* Updated libfaad to 2.9.2 (Parametric Stereo regression)
* Updated libarchive to 3.4.2
macOS:
* Fixed moving video window with mouse
* Fixed UI issue showing "permissions warning" unnecessarily often
* Fixed stack buffer overflow listing bluray mount points
* Fixed potential crashes at startup
Audio Output:
* Fix sound not coming back after a pause with CoreAudio (macOS/iOS)
Misc:
* Update Youtube script
Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:
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Misc:
* Update Twitch & VLSub scripts
Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
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Misc:
* Properly bump the version in configure.ac
Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
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Misc:
* Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request
Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
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Core:
* Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
Access:
* Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
* Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
* Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
unwanted glitches
* Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
* Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
Demux:
* Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
* Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
* Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
* Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
* Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
* Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
* Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
* Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
* Enabled Live seeking for HLS
* Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
* Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
* Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
* Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
Packetizers:
* Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
* packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
* Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
last frame or audio
* Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
Decoder:
* avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
* spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
on some DVD
* Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
* Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
* Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
* Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
* Update libfaad to 2.9.1
* Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
* Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
Audio output:
* Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
* Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
Video output:
* Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
* Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
* YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
* Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
Text renderer:
* Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
* Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
Mux:
* Fixed some YUV mappings
macOS:
* Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should
fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between
a wrong size and the correct size.
Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a
dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole
OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option
is used
* Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
* Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
* Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
* Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
* Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
* Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
* Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
* Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration
in digital mode
Service Discovery:
* Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
Misc:
* Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
playback of YouTube URLs.
* Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
* Improved chromecast audio quality
Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:
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Core:
* Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
Demux:
* Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
* Fix glitches in TS over HLS
* Add real probing of HLS streams
* Fix HLS MIME type fallback
Decoder:
* Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
Stream filter:
* Improve network buffering
Misc:
* Update Youtube script
Audio Output:
* macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
* macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices
Video Output:
* Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers
Stream output:
* Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma
Security:
* Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
* Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
* Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
* Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
* Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
* Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
* Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
* Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
* Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)
Contribs:
* Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)
Changes between 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1:
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Access:
* Update libbluray to 1.1.2
macOS:
* Fix bluray java menu playback regression in 3.0.7
Video Output:
* Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers
* Improve direct3d11 HDR support
Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
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Access:
* Improve Blu-ray support
* Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1
Audio output:
* Fix pass-through on Android-23
* Fix DirectSound drain
Demux:
* Improve MP4 support
Video Output:
* Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
* Fix crash on iOS
* Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
* Fix HLG display with Direct3D11
Stream Output:
* Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
macOS:
* Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
active network interface now
* Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave
Misc:
* Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
* Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled
Translations:
* Update of most translations
Security:
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
* Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
* Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
* Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
* Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
* Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
* Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
* Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
* Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
* Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
* Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
* Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
* Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
* Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
* Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
* Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer
Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
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Core:
* Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures
Codec:
* Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
* Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata
Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
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Access:
* Improve RTSP playback
* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
Codec:
* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
* Enable libaom decoder by default
* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
Demux:
* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
* Fix CAF integer-underflow
* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
Packetizer:
* Add an AV1 packetizer
macOS:
* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
* Fix convert & save panel stream option
Audio output:
* Fix corking when the playback state is paused
* Improve corking on Android
Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
* Misc Direct3D11 fixes
Miscellaneaous:
* Improve ChromeCast
* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
* Update Youtube support
* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
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Decoder:
* Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
* Decode AV1 streams
* Fix playback of low-fps files
* Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
* Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
* Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
* Fix crashes with LPCM streams
* Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
* Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
Demux:
* Improve FLV fps detection
* Fix some ogg/flac
* Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
* Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
* Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
* Fixes for MKV seeking
* Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
* Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
Audio Output:
* Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
* Improve macOS audio performance
* Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
* Fix crashes on DirectSound output
Video Output:
* Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
* Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
* Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
* Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
* Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
* Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
Text renderer:
* Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
* Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
* Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
* Fix some RTL rendering
Misc:
* Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
* Change the extension registration names on Windows
* Fix VLM 'now' date
* Fixes on the HTTPD server
* Fix on the NTservice registration
* Fix --stop-time option
* Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
* Fix subtitles alignment
* Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
* Fix detection SAT>IP servers
Qt:
* Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
macOS:
* macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
* Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
* Modernized and improved support for media keys
* Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
* Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
* Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
Translations:
* Update of most translations
Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
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Core:
* Update subtitles display while paused
Access:
* Enable srt support on binary builds
Decoders:
* Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
* Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
* Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
* Fix subsdec wide character support
* Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
Demux:
* Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
* Fix forced tracks selection
* Fix Topfield files
* Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
* Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
macOS:
* Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
* Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
* Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
Video Output:
* Fix crashes on Direct3D11
Qt:
* Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
* Fix spurious movement of the main Window
* Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
Misc:
* Fix amem output
* Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
* Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
* Fix audioscrobbling
* Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
* Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
Translations:
* Update of most languages
Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
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Core:
* Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
* Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
Decoders:
* Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
* Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
* Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
* Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
* Fix MIDI playback on macOS
* Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
Demux:
* Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
* Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
* Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
* Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
* Fix TTML inside MP4
* Improve MP4 read of color information
* Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
* Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
* Fix display of chapters with no name defined
* Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
* Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
* Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
* Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
Access:
* Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
Audio output:
* Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
* Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
* Allow a default device to be used by VLC
* Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
* Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
* Passthrough is now disabled by default
Audio filters:
* Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
* Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
Video output:
* Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
* Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
* Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
* Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
* Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
* Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
* Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
* Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
* Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
* Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
* Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
* Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
* Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
* Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
macOS:
* Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
* Fix conversion output file name encoding
* Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
* Fix crash on exit
* Fix remember playback position
* Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
* Fix swiping on time slider to change position
* Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
* Fix localization issues
Qt:
* Fix last folder used in open dialogs
* Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
* Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
* Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
* Fix jump size not being configurable
* Fix missing time labels updates
* Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
* Fix raw input dump
* Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
Misc:
* Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
* Fix crashes when searching for renderers
* Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
* Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
* Improve support for NetBSD
* Fix MSI script for Windows
* Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
* Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
* Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
* Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
* Various VLSub improvements
* lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
* lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
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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