Media player VLC has recently been updated to version 3.4.0, introducing a new audio playback UI, adding Handoff Ethernet support for Wi-Fi Sharing, and adding support for Apple CarPlay.
The official description of the application is as follows:
VLC is a free, liberal and open-source cross-platform multimedia player.
It can play most formats of video and audio directly, without prior conversion.
It supports syncing files via Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct download links, WiFi sharing, etc. It can also directly play SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, UPnP/DLNA media servers and stream media from the Internet.
VLC also supports advanced subtitle formats (including full compatibility with SSA), multi-track audio, playback speed control, and Chromecast rendering.
The following updates to this version:
- Adds a new audio playback UI
- Added support for CarPlay
- Added artist, album and episode views to the media library
- Introduced more options for sorting the media library
- Added support for bookmarks
- Added “About” dialog for users to contact us
- Improved random play algorithm for playback
- Indicates which media in the library is currently playing
- Major updates to internal event handling
- Performance improvements
- Added Handoff Ethernet support for Wi-Fi Sharing
- Added option to configure seek duration
- Rewrote support for OneDrive
- Updated UPnP support
- Added information screen for complex settings
- Removed the “variable jump duration” feature
- Added custom search duration option
- Show media size in the library screen
- Added optional display of album track numbers to the library screen
- Videos can now be played as audio
- Improved box.com login experience
- Adaptive streaming updated, mainly to improve timelines and webvtt
- Added support for DVBSub in MKV
- Fix flac audio quality degradation issue
- Fix the problem that some flac files cannot be played
- Improve the search for Ogg and fragmented MP4 files
- Fix a style issue with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
- Fix the playback of live AV1 streams
- Fix crash of VP9 streams
