VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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

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