About VLC Player for Mac VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, avi) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC Player Features. It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. VLC Player needs little CPU power. VLC can use a large number of input devices.

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VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC. Flexibility VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats.

For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish. Easy to Use VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format.

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The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player. Advanced Options Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Summary VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available.

It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org. Core: Update subtitles display while paused.

Access: Enable srt support on binary builds. Decoders: Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled. Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264. Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams.

Fix subsdec wide character support. Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC. Demux: Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds.

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Fix forced tracks selection. Fix Topfield files. Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS. Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams.

MacOS: Fix 'Open Network Stream' URL box focus. Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding.

Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences. Video Output: Fix crashes on Direct3D11. Qt: Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments.

Fix spurious movement of the main Window. Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen. Misc: Fix amem output. Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping. Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys. Fix audioscrobbling. Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts.

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Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues. Translations: Update of most languages.