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How To Install VLC 3.0.7 in Ubuntu Linux

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

VLC 3.0.7 Vetinari released. Here is how to install VLC 3.0.7 on Ubuntu Linux. VLC 3.0.7 is the second version of the “Vetinari” branch of our popular media player and VLC 3.0.7 is the seventh update of “Vetinari”.

VLC 3.0.7 Vetinari

  1. Improvements for HDR support on Windows, including for HLG streams
  2. Improvements on the Blu-ray support, notably for menus
  3. Fixes for some 10bit and 12bit rendering on Windows 10
  4. Fixes for UPnP discovery on MacBooks with a TouchBar
  5. Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
  6. BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
  7. Numerous security issues: 1 high security issue, 21 medium and 20 low security issues were fixed, ranging from integer overflow to buffer overflows, with out-of-read violations and stack overflows.

VLC 3.0 Features

Core:

  • Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS…)
  • HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
  • 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
  • Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
  • 360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
  • Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
  • Subtitles size modification during playback
  • Secure passwords storage

Codecs:

  • BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
  • Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
  • OggSpots video decoder
  • New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
  • New BPG decoder based on libbpg
  • TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
  • TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant
  • Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
  • BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder
  • Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708
  • New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows

Acceleration:

  • Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
  • HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
  • HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
  • MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
  • Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
  • HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox
  • New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux

Install VLC 3.0.5 from:

Install VLC (Snap App)

Or via the command line:


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install snapd
sudo apt-get
sudo snap install vlc --classic