VLC Media Player 3.0.20

Core:
* Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
* Allow brackets in path part of URLs

Access:
* Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
* Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
* Improve HTTP2 memory usage
* Improve AVCapture module
* Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
* Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
* Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)

Decoders/Packetizers:
* Add support for DTS LBR
* Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
* Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
* Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
* Fix crashes with VP9 streams
* Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
* Fix playback of live AV1 streams

Audio Output:
* iOS/tvOS: add support for spatial audio
* macOS: fix some channels ordering for > 5.1 channels
* Android: rework audio volume management

Video Output:
* Fix a D3D11 crash when the stream changes aspect ratio

Demux:
* Major overhaul of the adaptive streaming stack
* Support for DAV video files
* Add WebP image mapping
* Fix missing audio start of Opus audio in MKV/WebM
* Fix an infinite loop in MP4
* Fix attachments extractions in ogg files
* Support Uncompressed audio in mp4 (ISO/IEC 23003-5)
* Fix some lip sync issue in rare MPEG-TS streams

Interface:
* Qt/macOS: Fixup user provided URLs
* Add safe area handling on macOS
* Qt: improve preferences search
* Qt: fix --no-mouse-events option

Misc:
* Update YouTube script
* Fix Icecast directory parsing which could lead to missing entries
* Improve UPnP compatibility with some servers

3rd party libraries (contrib):
* Update FFmpeg to 4.4
* Update libflac to 1.3.4 to fix CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561
* Update libsmb2 to fix invalid UTF-8 encoding of some filenames
* Update taglib to fix corruptions when editing some OGG metadata
* Update dav1d to 0.9.2
* Update fribidi to 1.0.11
* Update freetype to 2.11.1
* Update libass to 0.15.2
* Drop pthreadGC2 in favor of winpthreads
* Enable Java support for blurays on Apple M1
* Update libsrt to 1.4.4
* Update twolame to 0.4.0
* Update mpg123 to 1.29.3
* Update libnfs to 5.0.1
* Update libarchive to 3.6.0
* Update AOM encoder to 3.1.1

Demux:
* Fix a regression causing a lack of audio in adaptive streaming
Interface:
* Qt: Fix right click support on video
Misc:
* Update YouTube script

Demux:
* Major adaptive streaming update, notably for multiple timelies and webvtt
* Fix seeking with some fragmented MP4 files
* Add support for DVBSub inside MKV
* Fix some Flac files that could not be played
* Improve seeking in Ogg files

Decoders:
* Fix DxVA/D3D11 crashes on HEVC files with bogus references
* Fix libass storage size and crash
* Fix decoding errors on macOS hw decoding on some HEVC files

Video Output:
* Fix color regression with VAAPI/iOS and OpenGL output
* Fix some resizing issues with OpenGL on GLX/EGL/X11/XV
* Fix Direct3d9 texture stretching
* Fix 10-bit accelerated video filters on macOS

Playlist:
* Avoid playlist liveloop on failed/tiny items (temporize EOS bursts)

Misc:
* Misc fixes for the extension UI on macOS
* Improve SMBv1 and SMBv2 behaviours
* Improve FTP compatibility
* Support RISC-V
* Fix AVI muxing for Windows Media Player compatibility
* Fix seeking speed on macOS

Contribs:
* update FFmpeg, bluray, upnp, pthread, x265, freetype, libsmb2, aom, dav1d,
libass, libxml2 (contains CVE), dvdread, harfbuzz, zlib, gme, nettle, GnuTLS,
mpg123, speex, bluray, libvpx

Core:
* Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios

Demux:
* Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
* Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
* Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
* Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
* Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
* Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
* Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
* Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
* Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
* Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
* Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information

Decoders:
* Multiple fixes on AAC handling
* Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
* Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
* Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
* Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
* Fix rawvid video in NV12
* Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
* Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering

Video Output:
* Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
* Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
* Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
* Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
* Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS

Input:
* Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts

Contribs:
* Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
* Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
* Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass

Misc:
* Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
* Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
* Fix GOOM visualization
* Fixes for Youtube playback
* Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
* Implement MPRIS TrackList signals
* Fix opening files in read-only mode
* Fix password search using the Kwallet backend
* Fix some crashes on macOS when switching application
* Fix 5.1/7.1 output on macOS and tvOS
* Fix several crashes and bugs in the macOS preferences panel
* Improvements on the threading of the MMDevice audio output on Windows
* Fix a potential security issue on the uninstaller DLLs
* Fix memory leaks when using the media_list_player libVLC APIs

Translations:
* Update of most translations
* New translations to Esperanto, Interlingue, Lao, Macedonian, Burmese, Odia, Samoan and Swahili

VLC Media Player 3.0.20