{"id":6029,"date":"2016-07-11T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2016-07-11T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:46:39","slug":"install-latest-vlc-2-2-4-ubuntu-16-04-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/install-latest-vlc-2-2-4-ubuntu-16-04-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install the Latest VLC 2.2.4 in Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vlc_logo_icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vlc_logo_icon.png\" alt=\"vlc_logo_icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest stable VLC media player has reached the 2.2.4 release. While Ubuntu 16.04 provide the old 2.2.2 release in its universe repository, you may install \/ upgrade VLC via a PPA.<\/p>\n<p>VLC 2.2.4 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix crash in G.711 wav files<\/li>\n<li>Fix mp3 crash in libmad<\/li>\n<li>Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (VideoLAN-SA-1601, CVE-2016-5108)<\/li>\n<li>Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output<\/li>\n<li>Improve compilation support for GNU\/HURD<\/li>\n<li>Minor UI improvements for the Qt interface on Windows, Linux, BSD, &#8230; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VLC 2.2.3 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Notable number of improvements, like green lines in the Windows video output and resuming where you left off.<\/li>\n<li>It also improves our codec support by adding new formats and providing faster decompression.<\/li>\n<li>More than 30 fixes for issues reported for 2.2.2.<\/li>\n<li>You can finally open more than 15 elements from the Windows&#8217; Explorer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-600x328.jpg\" alt=\"VLC 2.2.4 in Ubuntu 16.04\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-600x328.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-450x246.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install VLC 2.2.4 in Ubuntu 16.04:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nicola-onorata\/desktop<\/pre>\n<p>Type in password (no visual feedback) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-ppa-600x108.jpg\" alt=\"VLC 2.2.4 PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-ppa-600x108.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-ppa-450x81.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vlc224-ppa.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Upgrade VLC via <b>Software Updater<\/b>, or run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\n\nsudo apt install vlc<\/pre>\n<p>3. The PPA also contains a group of other apps, so you may remove the PPA after installing VLC by launching <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/remove-vlc224-ppa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/remove-vlc224-ppa-450x195.jpg\" alt=\"remove-vlc224-ppa\" width=\"450\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/remove-vlc224-ppa-450x195.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/remove-vlc224-ppa-600x260.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/remove-vlc224-ppa.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest stable VLC media player has reached the 2.2.4 release. While Ubuntu 16.04 provide the old 2.2.2 release in its universe repository, you may install \/ upgrade VLC via a PPA. VLC 2.2.4 release highlights: Fix crash in G.711 wav files Fix mp3 crash in libmad Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-vlc-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}