VLC 3.0 Features
CORE
Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS…)
HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
Subtitles size modification live
CODECS
BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
OggSpots video decoder
New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
New BPG decoder based on libbpg
TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
TTML subtitles support
Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) decoder
VIDEO OUTPUTS AND FILTERS
OpenGL as Linux/BSD default video output
Improvements in OpenGL output: direct displaying and HDR tonemapping
Rework of the Android video outputs
New Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes
HDR10 support in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
Video filter to convert between fps rates
Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
OS VERSIONS
Windows XP – 10 RS3
macOS 10.7 – 10.13
iOS 7 – 11
Android 2.3 – 8.1
Android TV, Chromebooks with Play Store
Windows RT 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1
Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox 1, Windows Store
GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, *BSD
ACCELERATION
Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
New VA-API decoder and rendering for Linux
CONTAINERS
Rework of the MP4 demuxer
Rework of the TS demuxer
HD-DVD .evo support
Rework of the PS demuxer
Improvements on MKV
AUDIO OUTPUTS AND FILTERS
Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android output
New Tizen audio output
HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
Rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
Pitch shifting module
ANDROID SPECIFIC
Chromecast support from your phone
HEVC hardware decoding using MediaCodec
Android Auto with voice actions
Available on all Android TV, Chromebooks & DeX
Support for Picture-in-Picture
Playlist files detection
