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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.
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.24
Release Date
9/21/2026
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.24 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fifth release of the VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.24 brings a major upgrade from FFmpeg 4.4 to 8.1.2; expected to$$$improve decoding performance and fix playback issues across a range of$$$formats.$$$$$$This update also includes:$$$- Update 49 third-party dependencies$$$- Add Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding support$$$- Add CEA-708 closed captions support in MP4$$$- Add SRT listener mode$$$- Add SFTP public key authentication options and ED25519 hostkey support$$$- Improve Qt6 support$$$- Improve subtitle language detection and WebVTT handling$$$- Improve Qt dialogs and effects window geometry saving$$$- Switch RIST input and output to librist; with main and simple profiles$$$- Fix numerous crashes; leaks; hangs and malformed file handling issues$$$ in MKV; MP4; MPEG-TS; Ogg; AVI and other demuxers$$$- Fix a LibVLC media list player race$$$- Add Super Resolution scaling with Moore Threads GPUs$$$- Add NV12 DirectShow capture support on Windows$$$- Fix Direct3D11 adjust filter issues and texture leaks$$$- Fix Windows audio crashes; leaks and deadlocks$$$- Fix slow Windows startup when Daylight Saving Time changes$$$- Fix the AudioToolbox MIDI synthesizer crash on macOS 26 and later$$$- Add Flatpak build support$$$$$$This release also disables the RealRTSP plugin in all build configurations;$$$removes the NPAPI browser plugin and the broken YouTube Lua script.$$$$$$The updater now uses a new RSA-4096 key to verify updates.$$$$$$3.0.24 also contains over 130 security fixes in VLC and its bundled$$$libraries; including fixes for out-of-bounds accesses; integer overflows;$$$double frees and use-after-free bugs.$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.21
Release Date
6/8/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.21-1 $$$protected$$$9c476829 · d3d11_tonemap: log when the TrueHDR feature is not available · 7 months ago$$$Mini Tag to fix release build issues of 3.0.21 on Windows.$$$ 3.0.21 $$$protected$$$dd8bfdba · Update NEWS for 3.0.21 · 7 months ago$$$VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:$$$ - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU$$$ - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation$$$ - support for Opus Ambisonic$$$ - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)$$$ - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS$$$ - improvements for MP4 and Opus support$$$ - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter$$$ - 3rd party libraries updates$$$ - fixes for VAAPI; HLS; UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes$$$ - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels$$$ - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.21
Release Date
6/8/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.21-1 $$$protected$$$9c476829 · d3d11_tonemap: log when the TrueHDR feature is not available · 7 months ago$$$Mini Tag to fix release build issues of 3.0.21 on Windows.$$$ 3.0.21 $$$protected$$$dd8bfdba · Update NEWS for 3.0.21 · 7 months ago$$$VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:$$$ - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU$$$ - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation$$$ - support for Opus Ambisonic$$$ - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)$$$ - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS$$$ - improvements for MP4 and Opus support$$$ - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter$$$ - 3rd party libraries updates$$$ - fixes for VAAPI; HLS; UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes$$$ - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels$$$ - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)
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