Download VLC Media Player for Mac Download Free – 3.0.21

With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, especially professional, HD and 10-bit codecs, 3.0 is a big upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new video rendering pipeline, with higher quality subtitles and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay discs (experimental). Completely redesigned Mac and web interfaces and improvements to the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.

Video

• Rewritten core and modules for video output, allowing subframe mixing in GPU.
• Shader support in the OpenGL output, for color space conversion, including 10 bits.
• New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
• New filters for removing bands, grain, denoising and anti-flicker.
• New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.

Sound

• New resamplers for higher sound quality.
• New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
• Simplification of the sound core for faster processing.
• New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

Formats

• Multithreaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
• Support for 10-bit codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
• Rewritten support for images including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp…
• Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
• CrystalHD card and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

Inputs and units

• Experimental support for BluRay discs:
  • Menus are disabled in this release (coming soon).
  • AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped for legal reasons.
• Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
• Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, such as HLS and DASH.

For Mac users

• Brand new single window interface:
  • Available in 2 colours: Lion gray and QTX black.
  • Support for extensions and better Lion integration.
• Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
• Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).

For Anime fans

• Significantly improved MKV demuxer.
• Support for rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files.
• Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
• Rewritten seeks support in cue files.
• Various ASS subtitles improvements.

For professional users

• Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
• Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10 bits.
• Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
• SDI and HD-SDI input card support on Linux.
• New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.

For developers

• libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
• New libVLC samples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
• New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
• Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
• VLC’s web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

What is new

Core:

• Fix potential errors when assigning subtitle images
• Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
• Fix green/missing line/column when image dimensions are odd

Codec:

• Add support for 12-bit decoding of AV1
• Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata

Decoders:

• Major improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster, supports multiple samples and removes crashes/deadlocks
• Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crash when searching 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 incorrect colors in some AVI files
• Fix playback of IFO files to boot DVDs
• Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
• Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for these cases
• Fix TTML inside MP4
• Improve MP4 reading of color information
• Fix flac searching and improve flac parsing
• Improve mkv opening and searching speed
• Fix display of chapters without name defined
• Various MKV crash fixes
• Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
• Fix audio being muffled on DVD chapter transitions
• Fix audio being muffled when searching a BluRay disc

Access:

• Avoid crash/assertion in FTP after searching

Audio output:

• Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
• Fix “reset audio volume” being hard disabled
• Allow a default device to be used by VLC
• Warn only once about AUhal device misconfiguration on macOS
• Improve resampling and latency calculation for CoreAudio
• Passthrough is now disabled by default

Audio Filters:

• Fix audio stacking after resuming pause with headphones
• Fix silence when dolby surround was incorrectly selected in preferences

Video output:

• Fix OpenGL crashes or poor display with semi-plane chromas
• Fix OpenGL interop (null copy) disabled for tvOS
• Major rewrite of iOS video output to fix many crashes
• Important improvements to the D3D11 video output to use less memory and less GPU for HDR tone mapping
• Fix cropping on vertical videos with Direct3D11
• Fix Direct3D9 filter settings not being used correctly
• Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
• Fix snapshots and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
• Fix a buffer overflow during GPU/CPU image copying
• Fix errors on DVD menus with Direct3D11
• Fix playback of non-HDR content on HDR displays with Direct3D11
• Fix YUV full area showing incorrectly in Direct3D11
• Fix various crashes in Direct3D11
• Fix potential black screen with 10-bit videos on Direct3D11

Mac OS:

• Fix Growl notifications on newer macOS versions
• Fix conversion output filename encoding
• Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
• Fix crash on exit
• Straighten up remember playback position
• Fix Java menu for Blu-ray discs
• Fix slider to swipe on time to change position
• Fix issues with recovering username from keychain
• Fix localization issues

qty:

• Fix last folder used in open dialogs
• Allow to customize the search jump when using the mouse wheel
• Fix fullscreen controller placement on multiscreen setups
• Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
• Fix jump size not configurable
• Fix missing timestamp updates
• Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
• Fix raw input dump
• Fix window size after full screen playback

Various:

• Fix lua rc and oldrc interface host specifications
• Fix crash when searching for renderers
• Move 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
• Various Chromecast improvements
• Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
• Various VLSub improvements
• lua: Fix scripts not loading on some filesystems
• lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths