{"id":8117,"date":"2018-09-02T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:41:09","slug":"vlc-3-0-4-released-av1-streams-decoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/vlc-3-0-4-released-av1-streams-decoding\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 3.0.4 Released with AV1 Streams Decoding Support"},"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 3.0.4 was released with support for decoding AV1 streams and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog file, VLC 3.0.4 contains following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decode AV1 streams<\/li>\n<li>Fix playback of low-fps files<\/li>\n<li>Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles<\/li>\n<li>Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes with LPCM streams<\/li>\n<li>Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs<\/li>\n<li>Fix MediaCodec rotation handling<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for ogg, flac, MKV, AVI, MP4, and incomplete RAR streams.<\/li>\n<li>Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes on DirectSound output<\/li>\n<li>Fix some crash in Direct3D11\/Direct3D9 because of sensors<\/li>\n<li>Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)<\/li>\n<li>Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers<\/li>\n<li>Some text rendering fixes.<\/li>\n<li>Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface<\/li>\n<li>Fix detection SAT>IP servers<\/li>\n<li>Fix tooltip display when using Wayland<\/li>\n<li>Various fixes for Mac OS, and other more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4> How to Install The Latest VLC in Ubuntu<\/h4>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver<\/b>, Ubuntu as usual will publish VLC 3.0.4 packages via security &#038; updates repository.<\/p>\n<p>At that time you can upgrade VLC via <b>Software Updater<\/b> (<i>check the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/vlc\" target=\"_blank\">building page<\/a>, The Bionic Beaver section<\/i>). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/upgrade-vlc225-450x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/upgrade-vlc225-450x328.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/upgrade-vlc225-600x437.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/upgrade-vlc225.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and higher<\/b>, the VideoLan team offers the official <b>Snap<\/b> package, containerised software package designed to work securely within most Linux desktop.<\/p>\n<p>You can simply install the <b>snap<\/b> (3.0.3 at the moment) via Ubuntu Software, and it will auto-updates to the latest VLC 3.0.4 once it&#8217;s published.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2vlc-softwarecenter-600x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2vlc-softwarecenter-600x317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2vlc-softwarecenter-450x238.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2vlc-softwarecenter-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2vlc-softwarecenter.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note for Ubuntu 16.04 users who never installed a snap package, make sure if <code>snapd<\/code> daemon is installed via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt 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 3.0.4 was released with support for decoding AV1 streams and various bug-fixes. According to the changelog file, VLC 3.0.4 contains following changes: Decode AV1 streams Fix playback of low-fps files Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up Fix crashes with LPCM streams Fix colorspace of [&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-8117","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\/8117","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=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}