VLC Media Player 3.0.19 is coming, what’s new?

2023-10-09 08:10:47

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

contributions:
* 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
* Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs

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Translations:
* Update of most translations
* New translations to Esperanto, Interlingual, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Oriya, Samoan and Swahili

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