The open source multimedia player VLC recently released the latest version 3.0.20.
The announcement reads that this is a moderate update for the VLC 3.0 branch: it upgrades the codec, fixes FLAC quality issues, and improves playback of multiple formats, including improved subtitle rendering. It also fixes freezing issues when using frame-by-frame operations. On macOS, audio layout issues have also been resolved.
The update log is as follows:
- VLC 3.0.20 is the 21st update of the "Vetinari" series
- Improved playback of several formats, including rendering of certain subtitles
- Upgrade codec
- Fix FLAC rendering quality issues
- Fixed issue with playing large files using some older AMD GPU graphics drivers
- Add AV1 hardware decoding on Windows
- Upgraded a large number of third-party libraries
- Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts
- Optimize localized translation
- Fixed two security issues, see: 1 , 2 for details
Download address: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.20.html