VLC media player 3.0.2 was released a few days ago. The release fixed more than 150 bugs since the 3.0.0 release, and improves decoding speed on macOS.
Changes in VLC 3.0.2 include:
- Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
- Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
- Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster, supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
- Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
- Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
- Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
- Fix MIDI playback on macOS
- Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
- Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
- Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
- Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
- Fix TTML inside MP4
- Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
- Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
- Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
- Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
- Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
- Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
- Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
- Fix “reset audio volume” being forcefully deactivated
- Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
- Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
- Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
- Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
- Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
- Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
- Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
- Fix last folder used in open dialogs
- Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
- Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
- Fix jump size not being configurable
- Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
- Fix raw input dump
- Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
- Fix crashes when searching for renderers
- Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
- Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
- Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
- Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
How to Install VLC 3.0.2 in Ubuntu:
The VideoLAN team offers official snap package, so Ubuntu users can easily install the latest VLC package from Ubuntu Software.
or you can run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install the snap:
snap install vlc --classic
NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04 uses who never installed a snap package, first run command in terminal to install snapd daemon via command:
sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open
