vlc-3.0.19

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Changes between 3.0.18 and 3.0.19:

Core:

• Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios

Demux:

• Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
• Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
• Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
• Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
• Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
• Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
• Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
• Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
• Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
• Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
• Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information

Decoders:

• Multiple fixes on AAC handling
• Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
• Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
• Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
• Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
• Fix rawvid video in NV12
• Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
• Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering

Video Output:

• Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
• Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
• Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
• Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
• Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS

Input:

• Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts

Contribs:

• Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
• Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
• Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass

Misc:

• Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
• Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
• Fix GOOM visualization
• Fixes for Youtube playback
• Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
• Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
• Fix opening files in read-only mode
• Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
• Fix some crashes on macOS when switching application
• Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
• Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
• Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
• Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs
• Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs

Translations

[Bruce Dubbs]

Using --disable-libva causes major problems. Removing it makes the program work fine.

We no longer need lua-5.2. All lua components build fine with lua-5.4.

All tests pass.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 8514a505