{"id":6779,"date":"2017-05-12T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:51:07","slug":"install-vlc-2-2-5-in-ubuntu-16-04-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/install-vlc-2-2-5-in-ubuntu-16-04-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install VLC 2.2.5 in Ubuntu 16.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vlc_logo_icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VLC media player 2.2.5 was released recently with a great number of improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>It has been almost one year since the last VLC 2.2.4 was released on June 2016. VLC 2.2.5 features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix green line rendering on Windows with AMD drivers<\/li>\n<li>Fix mp3 playback regression on macOS and 64bit Windows leading to distortion for some media<\/li>\n<li>Fix screenshots size<\/li>\n<li>Improved lua scripts for various websites<\/li>\n<li>Various security improvements in demuxers and decoders<\/li>\n<li>Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments<\/li>\n<li>Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra<\/li>\n<li>Fix screen recording on Windows<\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/developers\/vlc-branch\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\">changelog<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-450x272.jpg\" alt=\"VLC 2.2.5\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-450x272.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-600x362.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install VLC 2.2.5 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint:<\/h4>\n<p>Besides building VLC 2.2.5 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/download-sources.html\" target=\"_blank\">source tarball<\/a>, Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, and Linux mint 18 users can install it from the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~jonathonf\/+archive\/ubuntu\/vlc\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf\/vlc<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-ppa-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"VLC 2.2.5 PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-ppa-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-ppa-450x71.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/vlc-225-ppa.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2. (IMPORTANT)<\/b> Remove old VLC version to avoid a package conflict:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove vlc vlc-nox<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally run commands in terminal to check updates and install VLC 2.2.5:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install vlc<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Restore:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To restore VLC media player to the stock version in your main Ubuntu repository, run command to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:jonathonf\/vlc<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC media player 2.2.5 was released recently with a great number of improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 16.04. It has been almost one year since the last VLC 2.2.4 was released on June 2016. VLC 2.2.5 features: Fix green line rendering on Windows with AMD drivers Fix mp3 playback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-vlc-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","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=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}