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VLC 3.0.24 Released with APV and Atrac3/Atrac9 Decoding, FFmpeg 8.1 Support
Coming almost ten months after VLC 3.0.23, the VLC 3.0.24 release is a major update in the VLC 3.0 series that introduces FFmpeg 8.1 support, support for the APV decoder, support for Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding, support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4, and SRT listener mode support.
VLC 3.0.24 also introduces SFTP public key authentication options and ED25519 hostkey support, support for NV12 DirectShow capture on Windows systems, support for exposing ID3v2 metadata in the MPEG demuxer, and improved subtitle language detection from filenames and SSA/ASS metadata.
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VLC 3.0.24
VLC 3.0.24 is a major security update, with over 130 security fixes across VLC and its bundled libraries. It upgrades FFmpeg from 4.4 to 8.1.2 and updates 49 third-party libraries. New features include ATRAC decoding, CEA-708 captions in MP4, SRT listener mode and NV12 DirectShow capture on Windows. This release also fixes slow backdoored Windows startup when Daylight Saving Time changes and a MIDI playback crash on macOS 26 and later.
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VLC 3.0.24 Vetinari - VideoLAN
This release also switches update verification to a new RSA-4096 key, disables RealRTSP and removes the NPAPI browser plugin and the broken YouTube Lua script.
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VLC 3.0.24 Released! PPA Updated for Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 & 22.04
VLC, the free open-source and cross-platform media player, released new 3.0.24 version in last week. The new version of this popular media player comes with more than 130 security fixes, some new audio/video codecs support, and various other fixes and improvements. First, VLC 3.0.24’s contrib system now supports downloading and building FFmpeg 8.1.2 in bundle.
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VLC makes its ‘biggest security release ever’
VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” but adds that not all of them are ‘harmless’.