VideoLAN on Friday released VLC 3.0 "Vetinari", a major update to the popular media player that is rolling out across all platforms, including macOS, iOS, and tvOS.
Version 3 includes a huge number of new features and improvements to the app, including automatic hardware decoding for 4K and 8K playback, support for 10-bit HDR, 360-degree video and 3D audio, and Chromecast streaming with support for non-native formats.
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VLC now works with Blu-Ray Java menus and features network browsing support for local network and NAS drives, including those with SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS filesystems. The iOS app has also been optimized for iPhone X displays, while on Mac, Chromecast streaming to supported devices can be found in the menu bar under Playback -> Renderer.
Among many other changes and improvements in VLC Vetinari, further standout features include: a redesigned and resizable fullscreen controller; a new status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls; support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback; significant performance improvements in playlist handling; and a simplified preferences window. Check the online changelog for the complete list of updates.
VLC 3.0 is a free downloaded for Mac from the VideoLan website. (Note that version 3.0.0 of VLC removes support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and requires Mac systems to run OS X 10.7 Lion or later.) VLC 3.0.0 is already available on the tvOS App Store, but the iPhone and iPad update still appears to be rolling out as of writing.
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(View all)As it has done so for years VLC continues to stand Head and Shoulders above all other Media players.
must be near 20 years and over many different os from mac to win to bsd and back again and countless machines from the shiniest new box to the alley salvage find. vlc is always one of the first few softwares i put on a machine
it’s never failed me and always does what i need it to do
for me, it always has and still does play any video file, in any format, from any source (networked or locally) at the best possible quality given the machine it is running on
and it can do so much more than that
for free software to have that kind of quality and longevity is amazing
to me anyway
if it doesn’t work for you than yr prob doing it wrong
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Respect to VLC for making an effort here, but most people stopped using VLC years ago because it's so resource heavy.
what do you mean by “resource heavy” exactly?i’ve always found vlc to be quite capable on machines with slow old cpu’s and meagre amounts of ram
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I tried on my 2017 iMac and VLC doesn't seem to use HW acceleration for 4K HEVC.
what real world use case does this difference affectIINA does it.