We are pleased to release version 3.7.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform.
It comes with a completely new equalizer and an improved settings backup. See our Android page.

This weekend, VideoLAN is present at FOSDEM in Bruxelles, Belgium with a booth at the K building on Level 1. Throw balls, win rare prices and see our latest work on VLC including our AI based live subtitles generator!

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.23 release of VLC today, which is the 24th update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds a dark mode option on Windows and Linux, support for Windows ARM64 and improves support for Windows XP SP3. This is the largest bug fix release ever with a large number of stability and security improvements to demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others) and updates to most third party libraries. Additional details on the release page. The security impact of this release is detailed here.
The major maintenance effort of this release to strengthen VLC's overall stability as well as the compatibility with old releases of Windows and macOS was made possible by a generous sponsorship of the Sovereign Tech Fund by Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation.

Alongside the 3.0.23 release for desktop, VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing a larger update for Apple's mobile platforms to include the latest improvements of VLC's 3.0 branch plus important bug fixes and amendments for the 26 versions of the OS. Previously, we added pCloud as a European choice for cloud storage allowing direct streaming and downloads within the app.

We are pleased to release versions 1.6 of biTStream, 3.5 of DVBlast and 2.4 of multicat.
DVBlast and multicat had major improvements and new features.

New releases of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss have been published today.
The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption.

We are pleased to release version 3.6.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform.
It comes with the new Remote Access feature, a parental control and a lot of fixes. See our Android page.

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.21 release of VLC today, which is the 22nd update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds Super Resolution and VQ Enhancement filtering with AMD GPUs, NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate a HDR representation from SDR sources with NVIDIA GPUs and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering notably on macOS with Asian languages. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes a security issue, which is detailed here.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding playback history, A to B playback, Siri integration, support for external subtitles and audio tracks, a way to favorite folders on local network servers, improved CarPlay integration and many small improvements.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.20 release of VLC, which is a medium update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, fixes a FLAC quality issue and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering. It also fixes a freeze when using frame-by-frame actions. On macOS, audio layout problems are resolved. Finally, we update the user interface translations and add support for more. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes two security issues, which are detailed here and there.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new audio playback interface, CarPlay integration, various improvements to the local media library and iterations to existing features such as WiFi Sharing. Notably, we also added maintenance improvements to the port to tvOS including support for the Apple Remote's single click mode. See the press release for details.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.18 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page. This release also fixes multiple security issues, which are detailed here.

VideoLAN is a de-facto pacifist organization and cares about cross-countries cooperations, and believes in the power of knowledge and sharing. War goes against those ideals. As a response Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we decided to financially support the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and their work on aiding and protecting forcibly displaced people and communities, in the places where they are necessary. See our press statement.

VideoLAN is proud to release the new major version of VLC for Android. It comes with new widgets, network media indexation, a better tablet and foldable support, design improvements in the audio screen, improved accessibility and performance improvements.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.17 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page.

+ Windows GUI: Dark/Light theme preference is saved
+ Windows GUI: Fix opening subdirectories
+ Windows GUI: Add translations for Windows GUI theme menu
+ Windows GUI: Dark mode for HTML view
+ Windows GUI: Add 608/708 captions detection options
+ Cocoa GUI: Associate with image files
+ Qt build: various fixes about the GUI
+ I1881, MXF & MOV: customizable seek pos and duration of caption probe
+ I1882, CEA-608/708: option for forcing all CC1-CC4/T1 if stream is detected
+ JPEG 2000: support of HTJ2K profile
+ JPEG 2000: readout of jp2h colr atom, more file extensions, better support of broken files
+ DAT: Support of raw Digital Audio Tape
+ Enable Control Flow Guard (CFG) and Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
+ Conformance checker: an element is indicated bigger than its upper element
+ Conformance checker: option for max count of items per check
x Windows GUI: Fix unwanted deactivation of the ffmpeg plugin
x I2086, MXF: StreamOrder for tracks in ANC
x I2076, Dolby E: StreamOrder includes all underlying streams
x I2087, MPEG-TS: general duration includes before and after PCR offsets
x WavPack: various fixes for multichannel & DSD files
x Supported platforms: this is the last version compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, SLE 12, Debian 10, Mageia 8

+ Italian translation updated
+ Windows GUI: Dark theme
+ Windows GUI: Support of high DPI
+ Windows GUI: Sheet view is resizable
+ Windows GUI: Allow selecting multiple files in open file dialog
+ Windows GUI: Use system dialog for opening folders
+ I2029, MXF: decode of VBI (Line 21 & VITC)
+ I2058, VorbisCom: show MusicBrainz IDs in XML or full text output
+ I1881, MXF & MOV: customizable seek pos and duration of caption probe
+ I2005, WavPack: support of non-standard sampling rate
+ I2021, MP4: support of Qt style AudioSampleEntry in ISO MP4
+ Conformance checker: report of malformed frames for AVC & HEVC & AAC
+ Conformance checker: an element is indicated bigger than its upper element
+ Conformance checker: Add more stream synchronization related checks
+ Conformance checker: Check coherency of MXF elements having vectors
+ Conformance checker: check of MPEG Audio sync loss in raw MP3 & truncated file
+ Conformance checker: FFV1 checks also when in AVI and MOV/MP4
+ Conformance checker: check if a TIFF file is complete
+ Conformance checker: span of frames & frame/timestamp/byte offset
x Windows GUI: Fix position of open folder dialog
x Windows GUI: Fix text view strings after e.g. XML view
x Linux GUI: Use transparent icons
x Avoid infinite loop with distant files
x MXF: Support of SMPTE ST 422-2019 I2
x I2055, Dolby Vision: fix crash with some files
x I2054, ID3v2: fix crash with some malformed files
x FFV1: fix conformance checker crash with Golomb Rice parsing
x AC-3: fix crash with some TrueHD files
x I2005, WavPack: handle of small files
x BMP: fix bitdepth info

+ ADM: more AdvSS Emission profile checks
+ AC-3 & Dolby E: more AC-3 metadata readouts
+ AV1: support of chroma_sample_position
+ I1999, WAV: support of BS.2088 BW64 chunkId
+ I2008, Wavpack: support of DSD
+ I1882, CEA-608/708: options for ignoring command only streams
+ I1990, FLV: support of enhanced RTMP
x WAV: fix support of 4+ GB ADM
x I2005, WavPack: fix duration with small files
x I2009, IVF: fix division by zero with buggy files

+ French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian translations update
+ ADM: ADM v3, including profile element, support
+ ADM: conformance checks on AdvSS Emission profile
+ Dolby E: display more AC-3 metadata items
+ MOV/MP4: parsing of rtmd (real time metadata) tracks
+ PNG: packing kind (linear or indexed)
x WAV: support of 4+ GiB axml (useful for huge ADM content)
x MPEG-H: fix uninitialized values leading to random behavior
x PDF: fix crash with corrupted files
x MOV/MP4: fix bit depth info for some PCM tracks with pcmC box

+ ADM: Dolby Atmos Master ADM Profile conformance checker (technology preview)
+ Dolby Vision: support of version 3, with compression info, and profile 20
+ Dolby Vision: explicit display of profile
+ HEVC: support of multiview profile signaled in VPS extension
+ MP4: parsing of vexu (Video Extended Usage) box
+ ICC: support of CCIP in ICC in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, MP4, raw files
+ MPEG-TS: detection of VVC and EVC
+ AVC: count of slices
+ PNG: support of color description chunks (CCIP CLLI MDCV)
+ GXF: support of AVC and VC-3
+ TrueHD: display of Dolby Surround EX & Dolby Pro Logic IIz
x Matroska: better fallback in case of buggy timecode
x I1940, MOV/MP4: fix slowness with some unrecognized metadata atoms
x HDR10/HDR10+: fix HDR10 info even if some characteristics are not met

+ XMP: support of a couple of additional metadata
+ PNG: pixel aspect ratio, gamma, active bit depth
+ PNG: support of textual metadata
+ Detection of active width/height/DAR (based on FFmpeg), Windows only
+ Matroska: show ST-12 timecode of first frame
+ ADM: rounding of FFoA to 0 decimal and Start/End time codes to 2 decimals
+ WAV: support of big (1+ GB) axml chunks
+ ADM: support of big (1+ GB) files on 32-bit systems
x I1876, BWF: fix missing precision in TimeReference export
x I1607, MPEG-TS/PS: Less Inform() with Open(memory) than Open(file)
x MP4/MOV: show right time code of last frame with complex time code tracks
x Duration: timecode output should not use drop frame for 23.976fps
x AVC+HEVC: fix handling of DF timestamps
x SF1188, ID3v2: fix wrong handling of chunks having padding
x I1887, TS DVB: fix wrong handling of UTF-8 strings in service name
x I1892, Matroska: fix date readout if before the millennium

+ Italian language update
+ Languages: add 'fil' (Filipino)
+ Support of MPEG-H in MPEG-TS
+ MOV/MP4: caption probing time expanded from ~15s to ~30s
+ MPEG-7 and DVD-Video: provide title duration based on frame rate
+ WAV: better display of buggy WAV files have 2 fmt/data chunks
x MOV/MP4: fix lack of detection of CEA-608/708 if junk at end of stream
x DVD-Video: fix duration if more than 1 menu

+ DTS-UHD support (contribution from Xperi)
+ MPEG-7 output update, supporting collections for DVD Video
+ ISO 9660: more metadata
+ AVC: read out of time code
x DVD Video: better support of ISO having several episode
s x MPEG Video: fix duration not including last field duration (interlaced content only)
x I754, AVC&HEVC: fix risk of crash with some streams

+ USAC conformance checker: update DRC presence check
+ USAC conformance checker: sbgp presence check
+ USAC conformance checker: difference between extra zero bytes and other extra bytes
+ ISO 9660: support of DVD video, with option for listing all contents
+ MPEG-7: support of collections (beta)
+ More Blackmagic RAW meta kinds
+ DTS-HD: DTSHDHDR header support (used for raw DTS-HD files)
x ADIF: fix wrong detection of lot of files as ADIF (Android and MediaInfoOnline)
x USAC conformance checker: fix arith context handling in some corner cases
x ADM: some tweaks about FFoA/Start/End time codes
x Remove curl default ca info message in stdout

+ USAC/xHE-AAC conformance checker
+ S-ADM: support of SMPTE ST 2127-1 / SMPTE ST 2109 / SMPTE ST 2127-10 (S-ADM in MGA in MXF)
+ S-ADM: add S-ADM version and support of 1/1.001 frame rates
+ ADM: show FFoA/Start/End as timestamp and timecode
+ MPEG-7 output update with more extensions
+ MPEG-TS: support of JPEG XS
+ DTS-UHD: support of DTS-UHD (a.k.a. DTS-X P2) in MP4
+ MP4: detection of VVC
+ MP4: support of media characteristicd (spoken dialog, translation, easy to read...)
+ MP4: support of more Blackmagic RAW Codec IDs
+ MP4: support of ipcm CodecID
+ MP4: support of service kind
+ HEVC: support of SMPTE ST 2094-10
+ HDR: display of all formats if more than 1 format is detected
+ Matroska: support of SMPTE ST 12 in block additions
+ HEVC: time code SEI readout
+ AVC & HEVC: active format description readout
+ MPEG-TS: support of SMPTE ST 2038 (ancillary data)
x ADM/Dolby: fix wrong FFoA with 1.001 frame rates
+ MOV/MP4: more info with tracks having unknown type
x MOV/MP4: avoid to parse too much content with non stripped timecodes
x MOV/MP4: avoid incoherent behavior if 2 tracks have the same ID
x TTML: fix default frame rate
x TimeCode: 1/1.001 frame rate was not always detected
x MediaTrace: fix some random blank outputs
x URL: remove query part of the URL in the FileExtension field
x Referenced files: fix handling of URL encoded with UTF-8 content
x Matroska: fix crash in support of HDR10+

+ MXF: support of SMPTE ST 381-4 (AAC in MXF)
+ DTS: show MA or HRA tip in commercial name for DTS:X
+ DTS: detection of DTS:X not lossless
+ APT-X100 a.k.a. Cinema DTS: initial support
+ Matroska: support of HDR10+
+ MP4: more information about thumbnails
+ ID3v2: more information about thumbnails
+ VP9: initial support, for more information about chroma subsampling
+ AWS S3: support for reference files with AccessID:SecretKey@URL
x Windows installer: fix crash with Windows 10/11 having ASLR enabled (NSIS update)
x AWS S3: fix errors with some special chars in SecretKey
x AWS S3: fix random credential issues with non geolocated URLs
x DTS: fix freeze with some DTS-HD not DTS:X files
x MPEG-TS: fix crash in HEVC_timing_and_HRD
x AAC: fix samples per frame with SBR streams
x FLAC: fix missing Tbc Tbr in ChannelLayout

+ DTS: Detection of IMAX Enhanced
+ MOV/MP4: Add HDR Vivid format support
+ HEVC: Add HDR Vivid format support
+ MXF/PCM: detect silent tracks (full parsing only)
+ Monkey's Audio: support of 32-bit files, show version
+ MP4 audioProfileLevelIndication: add Low Delay AAC v2 Profile
+ MP4/MOV: support of FLAC
+ MOV/MP4: support of TTML with images
+ MPEG-7: 3 modes (strict, relaxed, extended)
+ MPEG-7: more sub-termIDs (AudioPresentationCS)
+ MPEG-7: Add more PublicIdentifiers
+ MPEG-7: more sub-termIDs (MP4, WAV, AVC, ProRes)
+ AVI/WAV: display of the kind of fmt chunk
+ AVC: detection of more profiles
+ ChannelLayout: difference between M (Mono) and C (Center, part of multichannel content)
+ AC-3: detection of channel layout also for encrypted content
+ AC-4 and MPEG-H 3D Audio: Merged channel layout (all sub-streams together)
+ DTS: Detection of real bit depth e.g. 20 instead of only byte aligned bit depth (16 or 24)
+ FLAC: support of BWF in Vorbis comments
+ N19/STL: codepage, subtitle count, max line per subtitle, more metadata
+ ISAN: detection of descriptions referencing an ISAN
+ AAC: detection of eSBR (and fix of random wrong PS detection)
+ Extract of time codes, XML format, currently only for for MXF
x MP4/MOV: fix freezes with some unknown udta atoms
x FLV: fix duration of 0 with some buggy files
x AVC: fix PTS of last frame
x FFV1: fix potential crash with malformed files
x AV1: add HDR format line and fix HDR values
x AAC and WAV: fix of channel layout display for 5 front channels
x AC-4: Tl/Tr mapped to to Tsl/Tsr
x FLAC: fix sampling count
x ID3v2: fix Genre not showing ID 0 (Blues)
x MPEG-7: VBR fix
x JSON/XML: Remove minus sign from element names
x Normalization of date/time in report

+ WebVTT: more information (duration, start/end timestamp, count of lines...)
+ MP4/MOV: support of FLAC
+ MP4/MOV: support of LanguageIETF
+ ProRes: parse FFmpeg glbl atom for getting color range
+ AVI/WAV: detection of character set
+ WAV: display MD5 of raw content
+ FLAC: display MD5 of unencoded content
+ USAC: trace of UsacFrame() up to after preroll
+ MOV/MP4: option for parsing only the header, no parsing of any frame
+ MXF: option for parsing only the header, no parsing of any frame
x MXF: quicker parsing when fast parsing is requested
x I662, WAV: fix false-positive detection of DTS in PCM
x I1637, MPEG-Audio: proper support of Helix MP3 encoder detection and encoder settings
x I661, MXF: fix UKDPP FpaPass value sometimes not outputted
x S1182, Teletext subtitle: prioritize subtitle metadata other overs
x Matroska: Better handling in case of buggy AVC stream
x 22.2 audio: Fix name of 1 channel (Tll --> Tsl)
x AAC: fix wrong parsing of some bitstreams
x Fix crash with stdin input and ctrl-c
x Fix memory leak in JSON output

+ Italian language update
+ USAC: IOD and sampling rate coherency checking
+ ADM: support of nested objects and complementary objects
+ AC-4: Display of Custom downmix targets
+ IAB: Parsing of IAB bitstream and ADM-like output
+ Frame rate: store FrameRate_Num/Den also for integer values
+ MPEG-4/MOV: support of time codes >30 fps
+ MOV/MPEG-4: List of QuickTime time code discontinuities
+ Dolby Vision: add info about more profiles
x Text streams: show stream frame rate if not same as container frame rate
x CDP: fix rounding of frame rate
x SCC: fix of CEA-608 FirstDisplay_Delay_Frames
x SCC: fix TimeCode_Last
x MPEG-4/MOV: last time code value for all kind of QuickTime time codes
x MOV/MPEG-4: Fix frame count for NDF non-integer frame rates
x JSON: fix invalid output in some corner cases
x Several other parsing bug/crash fixes (thanks to fuzzing by users)

+ MXF: FFV1 support
+ Dolby Vision: add info about more profiles
+ AAC: check of missing ID_END and incoherent count of channels
+ NSV: better handling of buggy StarDiva agenda negative timestamps
+ Text: Show text frame rate
+ Text: frame rate precise numerator/denominator also for text streams
+ CDP: readout of display aspect ratio
+ MPEG-4/MOV: support of time codes >30 fps
+ TTML: Support of more timeExpression flavors
x ADM: correctly map Dolby binaural render mode to track UID
x Dolby Audio Metadata: first frame of action in HH:MM:SS:FF format
x Dolby Vision: profiles and levels in decimal rather than in hexadecimal
x MXF: fix of Dolby Vision Metadata not displayed if HDR10 metadata is present
x MPEG-4/MOV: avoid buggy frame rates by taking frame rate from stts atom
x CDP: better catching of wrong line21_field value
x NSV: better handling of invalid frames
x MXF: Include frame count in SDTI and SystemScheme1 time codes to time stamp conversion
x TTML: do not show frame rate if it is from MediaInfo options
x DV: timecode trace in HH:MM:SS:FF format