Photo & Video
VLC media player
By VideoLAN
About VLC media player
It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion.
It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through Wi-Fi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web.
VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, playback speed control and rendering through Chromecast.
VLC is completely free and open source.
A closer look
What’s new in version 3.7.4
· require iOS 13 or later due to Apple's enforcement, drop support for iOS 9 to 12
· drop support for 32bit iOS devices
· update linked SDK to version 26
· update libvlc to version 3.0.24
· codecs: use FFmpeg 8.1 (upgraded from 4.4)
· codecs: add support for APV, Atrac3 and Atrac9 decoding
· demuxers: add support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4
· demuxers: improve subtitle language detection from filenames and SSA/ASS metadata
· demuxers: fix several MKV crashes, hangs and malformed file handling issues
· network: improve SMB2 share enumeration
· network: drop legacy RealRTSP support
· casting: disable HEVC for original Chromecast devices
· fix security issues in metadata parsing, decoders, subtitles, demuxers, network inputs and bundled libraries (SB-VLC3024)
· fix audio track selection issue on iPadOS 27
