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VLC 3.0.21 is now available as the latest stable version of this popular, cross-platform, free, and versatile media player for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, Windows, and other platforms.
Coming a little over seven months after VLC 3.0.20, the VLC 3.0.21 release is here to add a new AMD VQ Enhancer filter, a D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR for generating HDR content from SDR sources, Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs, and support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110.
The new D3D11 HDR option can also be used to turn on and off HDR for all sources regardless of the display. VLC 3.0.21 also improves Opus ambisonic support, and improves the rendering of subtitles on Apple platforms, especially for Asian languages, by correcting font fallback lookups.
Several bugs were addressed in this release to improve ASS subtitle rendering, Opus decoding in MP4, VA-API hardware decoding with some drivers, and HLS adaptive streaming in audio-only mode.
It also fixes a security integer overflow in the MMS module, crashes when using CAOpenGLLayer on Apple platforms, an issue with exposed UPnP directory URL schemes to be compliant with RFC 3986, a regression on macOS causing crashes when using audio devices with more than nine channels, as well as various warnings, leaks, and potential crashes.
Under the hood, VLC 3.0.21 includes updated components, including FFmpeg 4.4.4, dav1d 1.4.2, and libvpx 1.14.1.
You can download VLC 3.0.21 as a source tarball from the official website if you fancy compiling it from sources. If that’s not the case, you must wait for the new version to arrive in your distro’s repositories or on Flathub and the Snap Store.
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