VLC Media Player Version 3.0 Released

[Dan]

VLC is something that most IP system owners will come into contact with at some point, it is a powerful media player that can play almost any format or compression of video file with very few exceptions. VLC hasn't been updated for 3 years and the player has started to feel like it is falling behind the video format advancements, so it was great to hear that the software developers behind VLC have released a 3.0 version of the software (updating from the old 2.8 version).

DOWNLOAD VLC Media Player 3.0
(Available for both Windows & MacOS)​

The new version has lots of great features including support for 8K playback, 3D Video, and lots of improvements to the mobile versions of the software. For us though using it for playing back IP camera footage the most important feature of this update is that the software now supports H.265(HEVC) Compression, and from our brief test with the new software comparing it to the older version by playing the same download file on both versions, there was a visible improvement in the playback of the clip on the 3.0 software.

You can read more about the update and see the detailed changelog for the update HERE​

Download it, give it try and let us know what you think (and if you have any problems also let us know)​

 

[Magic919]

It’s not accurate to say it hasn’t been updated in three years. What about all those Weatherwax releases? They have been supporting HEVC using x265 for quite a while too.

 

[Phil]

Fair comment, we mis-quoted the article where we came across it:

"This is the first major update for the framework in over three years."​

 

[Magic919]

That certainly explains it, thanks.

It feels like we had most activity below version 1 then around 1.1 changed to version 2, and now we’ve hit 2.2.x and gone to v3. It seems an odd release numbering scheme.

The nightly builds have now gone to v4, so we’ll see that in due course.