VLC media player versions

Watch your favorite movies and listen to your music from one app.
3.0
Nov 6, 2023
2.2
Aug 21, 2013
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2.1
Mar 17, 2012
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2.0
Jan 24, 2012
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What's new

v2.1 [Mar 17, 2012]
- Fix compilation on OS/2
- Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
- Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
- Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
- Fix PGS alignment in MKV
- Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
- Correctly support video-on-top
- Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
- Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
- Fix transcode when audio format changes
- Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
- Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
- Update British English.

v2.0 [Jan 24, 2012]
2.0.1 specific changes
Support for MxPEG files and streams.
New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
2.0.1
Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
Numerous fixes for MKV support.
Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.

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