VLC Media Player 3.0.7 released: security updates and improvements
A new version of the cross-platform multimedia application VLC Media Player hast been released today. VLC Media Player 3.0.7 is a minor update that fixes security issues and includes some improvements and updates to components.
The release of VLC Media Player 3.0.7 has not been announced officially but interested users may download the new version already from the official download site of the project. Just install the new version over the existing installation to update the player to the new version.
Tip: you can check the installed version by selecting Help > About.
VLC Media Player 3.0.7: what is new
The new version is a security update first and foremost. The changelog lists more than two dozen fixes in demuxers and decoders, as well as other program components. Many fix buffer and integer overflows in these components but the update addresses a floating point exception, an infinite loop issue, a NULL pointer dereference, an integer underflow, as well as multiple use after free issues in VLC Media Player.
VLC 3.0.7 features several improvements next to that. The developers improved the player's Blu-Ray support in the new version. VLC can play video discs including DVD and Blu-Ray formats; the changelog does not list what has been improved in regards to Blu-Ray support, however.
Other improvements in the new version include improved MP4 demux support, better Chromecast support with new Chromecast applications, updates for various Internet media services such as YouTube, Soundcloud, Dailymotion, and Vimeo, and translation improvements.
The new version fixes several issues of previous versions including a crash on iOS, audio and video output issues, as well as video distortion on Mac OS Mojave.
VideoLAN, the company behind VLC Media Player, continues its work on VLC Media Player 4.0 in the meantime, the next major release of the multimedia player. We reviewed a preview version of the upcoming player in February 2019. The new version comes with new features and improvements, but drops support for older operating system versions.
Closing Words
VLC Media Player 3.0.7 should be announced soon officially. Users who don't want to wait can download the new version already to update existing installations.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?