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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

VLC 3.0.10
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.

VLC for iOS and tvOS releases
2020-03-31

VideoLAN is publishing updates to VLC on iOS and tvOS, to fix numerous small issues, add passcode protection on the web sharing, and improve the quick actions and the stability of the application.

VLC for iOS 3.2.5 release
2019-12-03

VideoLAN is publishing updates to VLC on iOS, to improve support for iOS9 compatibility and add new quick actions and improves the collection handling.

libdvdread and libdvdnav releases
2019-10-13

We are publishing today libdvdnav and libdvdread minor releases to fix minor crashes and improving the support for difficult discs. See libdvread page for more information.

VLC for iOS 3.2.0 release
2019-09-14

VideoLAN is finally publishing its new major version of iOS, numbered 3.2.0.
This update starts the changes for the new interface that will drive the development for the next year. It should give the correct building blocks for the future of the iOS app.

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Geoffrey Métais: Announcing VLC 3.2

VLC 3.2 is the second feature update for VLC 3. This update focused on polishing the user interface, adding some more features to Android TV and chromebooks and improving network browsing. Under the hood, the VLC app is now (almost) 100% w[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d 0.5.1: more speed!

A few reminders about dav1d If you follow this blog, you should know everything about dav1d. The VideoLAN, VLC and FFmpeg communities have been working on a new AV1 decoder, dav1d, to be the best and fastest decoder. 0.5.1 2 weeks a[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d 0.5.0 release: fastest!

tl;dr: dav1d is getting even faster If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder: dav1d is still ready for production, and getting used more and more, dav1d has a speed gain of 12% on ARM64 mobile CPUs, a gain of 22%-4[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC for iOS 3.2: a new hope

A new release: 3.2! VLC for iOS is our port of VLC on the iDevices and has been around for quite some time, and is quite popular. However, lately, the application development had a bit slowed-down and the interface was outdated. So, we d[...]

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