VLC Media Player 3.0.21

Version 3.0.21 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having to install the relevant codec. There is also support for Chromecast, hardware acceleration for decoding 4K and 8K video, support for HDR, display of 360-degree videos and 3D audio, access to network locations via SMB, FTP and NFS, HD audio passthrough and support for BD-J menus. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Decoders:

• Improve Opus ambisonic support
• Fix some ASS subtitle rendering issues
• Fix Opus in MP4 behavior
• Fix VAAPI hw decoding with some drivers

Input:

• Add support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110
• Fix some HLS Adaptive Streaming not working in audio-only mode

Video Output:

• Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs
• The D3D11 HDR option can also turn on/off HDR for all sources regardless of the display
• Improve subtitles rendering on Apple platforms of notably Asian languages ​​by correcting font fallback lookups

Video Filter:

• New AMD VQ Enhancer filter
• Add D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate HDR from SDR sources

Audio Output:

• Fix regression on macOS causing crashes when using audio devices with more than 9 channels

Services Discovery:

• Fix exposed UPnP directory URL schemes to be compliant with RFC 3986

Contrib:

• Update FFmpeg to 4.4.4
• Update dav1d to 1.4.2
• Update libvpx to 1.14.1

libVLC:

• The HWND passed to libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd must have the WS_CLIPCHILDREN style set.
• Fix crashes when using caopengllayer

Misc:

• Fix various warnings, leaks and potential crashes
• Fix security integer overflow in MMS module