{"id":7807,"date":"2018-06-03T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2018-06-03T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:55:24","slug":"vlc-3-0-3-released-various-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/06\/vlc-3-0-3-released-various-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 3.0.3 Released with Various Fixes (How to Install)"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VLC media player got a new maintenance release for VLC 3.0 series a few days with numerous bug-fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog, VLC 3.0.3 contains following changes: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update subtitles display while paused<\/li>\n<li>Enable srt support on binary builds<\/li>\n<li>Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled<\/li>\n<li>Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264<\/li>\n<li>Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams<\/li>\n<li>Fix subsdec wide character support<\/li>\n<li>Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous ogg improvements &#038; bugfixes, including oggds<\/li>\n<li>Fix forced tracks selection<\/li>\n<li>Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes on Direct3D11<\/li>\n<li>Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments<\/li>\n<li>Fix spurious movement of the main Window<\/li>\n<li>Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen<\/li>\n<li>Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping<\/li>\n<li>Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys<\/li>\n<li>Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts<\/li>\n<li>Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install VLC 3.0.3 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official snap package of VLC 3.0.3 is available in Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-ubuntusoftware.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-ubuntusoftware.jpg 823w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-ubuntusoftware-450x230.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-ubuntusoftware-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-ubuntusoftware-600x306.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or you can run command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install the snap:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">snap install vlc --classic<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"97\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install-600x83.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>It automatically upgrade to VLC 3.0.3 if an old version of the snap package was installed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04 uses who never installed a snap package, first run command in terminal to install snapd daemon via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC media player got a new maintenance release for VLC 3.0 series a few days with numerous bug-fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04. According to the changelog, VLC 3.0.3 contains following changes: Update subtitles display while paused Enable srt support on binary builds Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled [&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-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-vlc-media-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","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=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}