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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

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News & Updates

2020-10-23

A minor release of libbluray was pushed today, focused on fixing bugs and improving the support for UHD Blurays. More details on the libbluray page.

2020-09-23

VideoLAN is proud to release the new major version of VLC for Android. A complete design rework has been done. The navigation is now at the bottom for a better experience. The Video player has also been completely revamped for a more modern look. The video grouping has been improved and lets you create custom groups. You can also easily share your media with your friends. The settings have been simplified and a lot of bugs have been fixed.

2020-07-29

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.11.1 release for macOS, which notably solves an audio rendering regression introduced in the last update specific to that platform. Additionally, it improves playback of HLS streams, WebVTT subtitles and UPnP discovery.

2020-06-16

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.11 release, which improves HLS playback and seeking certain m4a files as well as AAC playback. Additionally, this solves an audio rendering regression on macOS when pausing playback and adds further bug fixes. Additionally, a security issue was resolved.
More information available on the release page.

2020-04-28

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.10 release, which improves DVD, macOS Catalina, adaptive streaming, SMB and AV1 support, and fixes some important security issues.
More information available on the release page.
We are also releasing new versions for iOS (3.2.8) and Android 3.2.11 for the same security issues.

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Development Blogs

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d 0.7.1

Release 0.7.1 We just did a small release of dav1d called 0.7.1, just one month after 0.7.0. It is a quick release that fixes a couple of bugs and that does more optimizations on ARM32 and SSE2. ARM 32-bit After spending a lot of ti[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d 0.7.0: mobile focus

tl;dr Dav1d new release: 10% faster on Intel CPUs with 25% less RAM, assembly finished for 8bit ARM64 assembly mostly done for 10/12bit in addition to 8bit dav1d is twice as fast as gav1 on ARM CPU and 4 times faster for 10b 1080p AV1 dec[...]

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[aprilorg] En savoir plus sur VLC , le lecteur multimédia libre (l'histoire du projet, les fonctionnalités, les aspects juridi… https://t.co/xHKNLPQIXl

[videolan] M1 chips are very fast. Full decode of AV1 sample Chimera in 1080p using dav1d: i9-9980H: 76/312/369fps MacMini M1:… https://t.co/rY1vVDMGdr

[videolan] Some discussion (in French) about VLC security and future development about those. https://t.co/FHBvA7pzI6

[martz2804] Just merged and deployed initial libvlcsharp support for @AvaloniaUI, thanks to a new contributor! Efficient mult… https://t.co/c90BKPdI3L

[KDABQt] #QtDD: This presentation will trace back the history of @videolan and Qt, and showcase what VLC will do on the new… https://t.co/2U0cB1bJbG