VLC 3.0.5 released. Install VLC 3.0.5 in Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 18.04. VLC 3.0.5 brings an improved Blu-ray playback, menu access and seeking, improvements for MP4, MKV, CAF and AV1 media, better HDR support & tone-mapping and an updated Youtube support.
Changes between VLC 3.0.4 and VLC
Access:
- Improve RTSP playback
- BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
- Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
Codec:
- Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
- Enable libaom decoder by default
- Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
Demux:
- MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
- Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
- Fix CAF integer-underflow
- Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
Packetizer:
- Add an AV1 packetizer
Audio output:
- Fix corking when the playback state is paused
- Improve corking on Android
Video Output:
- Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
- More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
- Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
- Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
- Misc Direct3D11 fixes
Miscellaneaous:
- Improve ChromeCast
- Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
- Update Youtube support
- Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
Install VLC 3.0.5 in Ubuntu
Users can easily install VLC 3.0.5 in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and other Ubuntu Derivatives.
The official VLC snap package and traditional .deb package have been updated to VLC v3.0.5. Users can install it from Ubuntu Software Center.
Install VLC 3.0.5 from:
Or via the command line:
sudo snap install vlc