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VLC Media Player Portable

  -  41.15 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    VLC Media Player Portable 3.0.19 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64

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  • Author / Product

    VideoLAN team / External Link

  • Filename

    VLCPortable_3.0.19.paf.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    c202c9a08f2cd340747f5d8c20e1619a

VLC Media Player Portable (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable free multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. Download VLC Portable Offline Installer Setup for Windows.

With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC Portable.

Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. It supports many new devices' inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.



Features and Highlights
  • 8K support (hardware decoding is on by default)
  • Chromecast/Google Cast support
  • HDR and 10-bit video
  • HMDI Audio passthrough
  • Network browsing for NAS systems
  • 360 video and 3D audio
  • Modifying subtitle size live
  • Drag and drop support
  • HD DVD support
  • Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
  • Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
  • Video outputs for Windows 8 and 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
  • Debanding, grain, denoising, and anti-flickering filters.
  • Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
  • Resamplers for higher quality audio.
  • Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
  • Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
  • Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
  • Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid, and WebM.
  • Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image, and some other codecs.
  • Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp, etc.
  • Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
  • CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
  • And many more features...
Also Available: Download VLC Media Player for Mac

  • VLC Media Player Portable 3.0.19 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Core:
- Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios

Demux:
- Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
- Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
- Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
- Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
- Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
- Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
- Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
- Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
- Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
- Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
- Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information

Decoders:
- Multiple fixes on AAC handling
- Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
- Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
- Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
- Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
- Fix rawvid video in NV12
- Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
- Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering

Video Output:
- Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
- Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
- Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
- Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
- Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS

Input:
- Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts

Contribs:
- Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
- Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
- Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass

Misc:
- Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
- Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
- Fix GOOM visualization
- Fixes for Youtube playback
- Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
- Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
- Fix opening files in read-only mode
- Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
- Fix some crashes on macOS when switching application
- Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
- Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
- Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
- Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs
- Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs

Translations:
- Update of most translations
- New translations to Esperanto, Interlingue, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Odia, Samoan and Swahili

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