News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
VLC, the free open-source and cross-platform media player, released new 3.0.24 version in last week.
The new version of this popular media player comes with more than 130 security fixes, some new audio/video codecs support, and various other fixes and improvements.
VLC, the popular free open-source media player, released new 3.0.23 version few days ago for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
This is a small release that fixed some bugs, updated the dark palette, and improved the compatibility for recent dependency libraries.
After almost a year and a half of development, VLC 3.0.22 is finally available to download! PPA updated for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10.
After two RC releases, VLC 3.0.22 is finally made available with some new features, UI changes, bug-fixes, and many security fixes.
VLC, the popular free open-source media player, released version 3.0.21 after more than half a year of development.
The release introduced AMD HQ Scaler support for Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs. Meaning, user can now use this AI-assisted feature to improve the quality and sharpness of playback with NVIDIA RTX series (and more listed in this page), AMD Radeon™ RX 5000 Series Graphics and newer, and Intel Arc, Xe-LP GPUs.
If you have a compatible GPU, then you can enable this feature in Preferences dialog, under Video -> Output modules section.
VLC media player 3.0.2 was released a few days ago. The release fixed more than 150 bugs since the 3.0.0 release, and improves decoding speed on macOS.
Changes in VLC 3.0.2 include:
The VideoLAN team offers official snap package, so Ubuntu users can easily install the latest VLC package from Ubuntu Software.
or you can run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install the snap:
snap install vlc --classic
NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04 uses who never installed a snap package, first run command in terminal to install snapd daemon via command:
sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open
This quick tutorial shows you how to make your VLC media player remember the position of the last played files with a plugin called srpos.
srpos plugin works for VLC 2.1.x in Windows and Linux. It allows you to automatically save and restore up to 100 last played files position.
How to install this plugin:
For Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17 and their derivatives, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install it from PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc-srpos-plugin
For Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 13.10 and their derivatives, you may consider upgrading VLC to the stable release v2.1.4 as the 2.0.x in their repositories are not supported. To do so, run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/vlc-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc
After that, download .deb package from: Launchpad Page
Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 user can also download & install the .deb directly from the launchpad page if you don’t like Ubuntu PPAs.
How to Use the Plugin:
Once the plugin installed:
1. Re-open VLC, and go to menu Tools -> Preferences.
2. Under bottom left corner, select show All settings.
3. Navigate to Interface -> Control Interface on left sidebar.
4. Check the box where it says “Save/restore position of the last played files”
5. Save and close VLC. The plugin will work the next time you launch it.
Here is a quick tutorial about how to make VLC media player use Ubuntu desktop notifications in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS.
VLC is one of the most widely used media player in Linux desktops. It is well integrated with Ubuntu Unity except that it does not use the native libnotify daemon so that you won’t see any notification bubble that indicates what’s playing. To enable this feature, follow below steps.
1. Open VLC media player, go to menu Tools -> Preferences.
2. On the left bottom, choose All to display all VLC settings.
3. Go to Interface -> Control Interface, check the box where it says “LibNotify Notificatior” to make VLC use Ubuntu’s notification daemon.
4. Click to expand Control Interface in left sidebar and you can change the notification bubbles timeout under Notify settings.
Restart VLC media player and enjoy!
