Super Resolution upscaling for nVidia RTX GPU Supports HDR and HDR tone-mapping 360° video navigation Chromecast streaming Optimized for iPhone X Faster version for UWP and XBox One VLC 3.0.19 RTX is a custom version of "Vetinari" It activates RTX Video Super Resolution by default on nVidia RTX 30 and 40 series GPUs Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage Subtitles size modification during playback Secure passwords storage Secure passwords storage Hardware decoding and display on all platforms HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11 HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android) MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2 HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders OggSpots video decoder New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123 New BPG decoder based on libbpg TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708 New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows Rework of the MP4 demuxer: including 608/708, Flip4Mac, XiphQT, VP8, TTML mappings Rework of the TS demuxer: including Opus, SCTE-18, ARIB mappings HD-DVD .evo support Rework of the PS demuxer, supporting HEVC, improving compatibility of broken files Improvements on MKV, including support for DVD-menus and FFv1, and faster seeking Support for Chained-Ogg, raw-HEVC and improvements for Flac Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI and VOC files Improved metadata formats in most file formats Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks Support for HTTP 2.0 Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing Support for SRT streaming protocol Support for streaming to Chromecast devices Support for VP8 and VP9 encoding through libvpx Support for streaming Opus inside TS Support for mp4 fragmented muxing Improvements for x265 encoding Support for VP8 and VP9 encoding through libvpx Support for streaming Opus inside TS Support for mp4 fragmented muxing Improvements for x265 encoding Support for streaming Opus inside TS Support for mp4 fragmented muxing Improvements for x265 encoding Support for mp4 fragmented muxing Improvements for x265 encoding

Improvements for x265 encoding OpenGL as Linux/BSD default video output Improvements in OpenGL output: direct displaying and HDR tonemapping Rework of the Android video outputs New Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes HDR10 support in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL Video filter to convert between fps rates Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11 Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android output New Tizen audio output HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD) Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio Rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler) Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams Pitch shifting module Windows XP ➔ 11 macOS 10.7 ➔ 13 Android 4.2 ➔ 13 Android TV, Chromebooks with Play Store Windows RT 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox 1, Windows Store GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, *BSD Chromecast support from your phone HEVC hardware decoding using MediaCodec Android Auto with voice actions Available on all Android TV, Chromebooks & DeX Support for Picture-in-Picture Playlist files detection New bindings for C++ and C++/CX New input-from-memory to implement custom protocols or DRM Support for ChromeCast and Renderer targets Improve API for servers discovery New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Support for ChromeCast and Renderer targets Improve API for servers discovery New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Improve API for servers discovery New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones New API for dialogs, notably for HTTPS warnings New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones New API to manage slaves inputs, including subtitles over the network Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Improve codec, format descriptions and associated metadata Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Improve EPG events API Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Better support for Android applications, native and Java ones Ask your favorite packager for VLC 3.0! For any questions related to this release, please contact us . VLC for Windows VLC for Mac OS X VLC for Android VLC Skin Editor VideoLan Movie Creator Project and Organization Security center Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license. Design by Made By Argon . Some icons are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0+ . The VLC cone icon was designed by Richard Øiestad. Icons for VLMC, DVBlast and x264 designed by Roman Khramov .