{"id":8474,"date":"2018-12-29T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2018-12-29T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:40:15","slug":"vlc-3-0-5-released-install-in-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/vlc-3-0-5-released-install-in-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 3.0.5 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VLC media player released version 3.0.5 a few days ago with performance improvements and numerous fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/news.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VLC 3.0.5<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster and more complete support for the AV1 codec<\/li>\n<li>Compatibility with macOS 10.14 &#8220;Mojave&#8221;, with native dark mode, and notarization<\/li>\n<li>Improvements for Blu-ray playback, RTP and UDP streams<\/li>\n<li>Improvements for MP4, MKV, CAF and AV1 media<\/li>\n<li>Improvements for HDR support, tone-mapping and native Windows HDR support<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for Chromecast, Direct3D11, Youtube and subtitles rendering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vlc305-600x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vlc305-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vlc305-450x288.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vlc305-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vlc305.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install VLC 3.0.5 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><b>Linux Snap package:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The official VLC snap package (containerized software package) has been updated to v3.0.5. For <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> and higher, simply install it from Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vlc-software-center-600x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vlc-software-center-600x377.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vlc-software-center-450x283.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vlc-software-center-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vlc-software-center.jpg 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 16.04<\/b>, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the snap package:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install snapd && sudo snap install vlc<\/pre>\n<p><b>VLC package for Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu comes with VLC package (see previous picture), and offers software updates through <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/vlc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updates repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE VLC 3.0.5 is not available at the moment of writing. As usual, the new release package will be published in a few days.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, simply install VLC .deb package from Ubuntu Software, and VLC 3.0.5 package will be available via <b>Software Updater<\/b> once published.<\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC media player released version 3.0.5 a few days ago with performance improvements and numerous fixes. Here&#8217;s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases. VLC 3.0.5 release highlights: Faster and more complete support for the AV1 codec Compatibility with macOS 10.14 &#8220;Mojave&#8221;, with native dark mode, and notarization Improvements for Blu-ray playback, RTP [&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-8474","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\/8474","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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}