VLC player is a free and source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and streaming.
It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. For subtitles you can download VLSub.
Why is VLC so popular?
VLC Player has grown its user militanti over the years thanks to its simplicity, wide support for a variety of formats, and features which allow all sorts of manipulation and enhancements.
Is VLC compatible with Windows 11?
VLC player is compatible with all versions of Windows, including Windows 11. VLC player is a cross-platform player, so it’s also available for macOS, Linux and Android.
What does VLC stand for?
VLC stands for VideoLAN Client. VLC player, as it’s now called, began to exist around 1996 as a project from the École Stazione Paris consisting of a client and server designed to stream videos.
What formats does VLC support?
VLC offers support for the following formats: MPEG-1/2, DivX (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Televisione v3 (IV32), Real Televisione (1/2/3/4).
What audio formats does VLC support?
VLC player offers support for the following audio formats: MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 – MPEG Layer 3, AAC – MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 – A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE.
Can VLC play DVDs?
VLC can play all kinds of DVDs, including discs with protection. However, the legality of using VLC to play protected DVDs depends where you are located.
What’s New
Decoders:
- Improve Opus ambisonic support
- some ASS subtitle rendering issues
- Opus sopra MP4 behaviour
- VAAPI hw decoding with some drivers
:
- Add support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110
- some HLS Adaptive Streaming not working sopra audio-only mode
Televisione Output:
- Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs
- The D3D11 HDR option can also turn /chiuso HDR for all sources regardless of the display
- Improve subtitles rendering Apple platforms of notably Asian languages by correcting font fallback lookups
Televisione Filter:
- New AMD VQ Enhancer filter
- Add D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate HDR from SDR sources
Audio Output:
- regression macOS causing crashes when using audio devices with more than 9 channels
Services Discovery:
- 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.
- crashes when using caopengllayer
Misc:
- various warnings, leaks and potential crashes
- security integer overflow sopra MMS module
Security:
- A denial of service through a potential integer overflow could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow)
Impact
- If successful, a malicious third trattenimento could trigger either a crash of VLC an arbitratry code execution with the privileges of the target user.
- While these issues sopra themselves are most likely to just crash the player, we can’t exclude that they could be combined to user informations remotely execute code. ASLR and DEP help the likelyness of code execution, but may be bypassed.
- We have not seen exploits performing code execution through this vulnerability.
Threat mitigation
- Exploitation of those issues requires the user to explicitly a maliciously crafted mms stream.
Workarounds
- The user should refrain from opening mms streams from untrusted third parties ( disable the VLC browser plugins), until the patch is applied.
Solution
- VLC player 3.0.21 addresses the issue.
Previous Release Agenda:
Decoders:
- NvidiaImprove Opus ambisonic support
- NvidiaFix some ASS subtitle rendering issues
- NvidiaFix Opus sopra MP4 behaviour
- NvidiaFix VAAPI hw decoding with some drivers
:
- NvidiaAdd support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110
- NvidiaFix some HLS Adaptive Streaming not working sopra audio-only mode
Televisione Output:
- NvidiaSuper Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs
- NvidiaThe D3D11 HDR option can also turn /chiuso HDR for all sources regardless of the display
- NvidiaImprove subtitles rendering Apple platforms of notably Asian languages by correcting font fallback lookups
Televisione Filter:
- NvidiaNew AMD VQ Enhancer filter
- NvidiaAdd D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate HDR from SDR sources
Audio Output:
- NvidiaFix regression macOS causing crashes when using audio devices with more than 9 channels
Services Discovery:
- NvidiaFix exposed UPnP directory URL schemes to be compliant with RFC 3986
Contrib:
- NvidiaUpdate FFmpeg to 4.4.4
- NvidiaUpdate dav1d to 1.4.2
- NvidiaUpdate libvpx to 1.14.1
libVLC:
- Nvidiathe HWND passed to libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd must have the WS_CLIPCHILDREN
- style set.
- NvidiaFix crashes when using caopengllayer
Misc:
- NvidiaFix various warnings, leaks and potential crashes
- NvidiaFix security integer overflow sopra MMS module
