{"id":9039,"date":"2019-06-08T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2019-06-08T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T16:12:41","slug":"vlc-3-0-7-released-improved-blu-ray-mp4-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/vlc-3-0-7-released-improved-blu-ray-mp4-support\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 3.0.7 Released! Improved Blu-ray, MP4 Support (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 3.0.7 was released a day ago. The new release features numerous security fixes and many improvements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/releases\/3.0.7.html\" target=\"_blank\">VLC 3.0.7<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvements on the Blu-ray support, notably for menus<\/li>\n<li>Improve MP4 support<\/li>\n<li>Improvements for HDR support on Windows, including for HLG streams<\/li>\n<li>Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for UPnP discovery on MacBooks with a TouchBar<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for some 10bit and 12bit rendering on Windows 10<\/li>\n<li>And numerous security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install VLC 3.0.7 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official VLC 3.0.7 <b>snap package<\/b> (containerised software package) is available in Ubuntu Software for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04, and higher.<\/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>For <b>Ubuntu 16.04<\/b>, open terminal (<b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>) and make sure <code>snapd<\/code> daemon is installed.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install snapd<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-600x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"103\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-600x103.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-snapd-xenial.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then install VLC 3.0.7 snap package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap install vlc --classic<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vlc-snap-install-600x83.jpg 600w, 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.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open VLC from your system application launcher and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Optional<\/b>) To remove the snap package, either use Ubuntu Software or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap remove vlc<\/pre>\n<h4>VLC 3.0.7 PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>For those who are looking for traditional VLC .deb package, the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~jonathonf\/+archive\/ubuntu\/vlc-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> contains the latest VLC 3.0.7 packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC media player 3.0.7 was released a day ago. The new release features numerous security fixes and many improvements. VLC 3.0.7 release highlights: Improvements on the Blu-ray support, notably for menus Improve MP4 support Improvements for HDR support on Windows, including for HLG streams Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps Fixes for UPnP discovery [&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":[639,1726],"class_list":["post-9039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-vlc-media-player","tag-vlc-ppa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039","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=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}