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Version 3.0.23 • Windows • 38 MB Other projects from VideoLAN For Everyone VLC media player VLC is a powerful media player playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there. VLMC VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation. For Professionals

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News & Updates VideoLAN at FOSDEM 2026-01-31

This weekend, VideoLAN is present at FOSDEM in Bruxelles, Belgium with a booth at the K building on Level 1. Throw balls, win rare prices and see our latest work on VLC including our AI based live subtitles generator!

VLC 3.0.23 2026-01-08

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.23 release of VLC today, which is the 24th update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds a dark mode option on Windows and Linux, support for Windows ARM64 and improves support for Windows XP SP3. This is the largest bug fix release ever with a large number of stability and security improvements to demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others) and updates to most third party libraries. Additional details on the release page. The security impact of this release is detailed here.The major maintenance effort of this release to strengthen VLC's overall stability as well as the compatibility with old releases of Windows and macOS was made possible by a generous sponsorship of the Sovereign Tech Fund by Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation.

VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 3.7.0 2026-01-08

Alongside the 3.0.23 release for desktop, VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing a larger update for Apple's mobile platforms to include the latest improvements of VLC's 3.0 branch plus important bug fixes and amendments for the 26 versions of the OS. Previously, we added pCloud as a European choice for cloud storage allowing direct streaming and downloads within the app.

New releases for biTStream, DVBlast and multicat 2025-12-01

We are pleased to release versions 1.6 of biTStream, 3.5 of DVBlast and 2.4 of multicat.DVBlast and multicat had major improvements and new features.

New releases for libdvdcss, libdvdread and libdvdnav 2025-11-09

New releases of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss have been published today. The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont: VLC 3.0.22-rc2 plays Doom music files

With the back-port of the VLC DMXMUS plugin from VLC 4.0, versions 3.0.22-RC2 and later are able to play music files from the 1990's DMX sound library such as Doom, Doom II and Heretic.[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: SpacemiT's Integrated Matrix Extension

Breaking down the SpacemiT X60's matrix product.[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: C908 & X60 HCF instructions

Decoding the HCF instructions from the GhostWrite paper.[...]

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