VideoLAN (VLC)

VLC Media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Playing back .MP4 H.264 encoded movies:

• Use VideoLAN which has a built in .MP4 reader and H.264 decoder
• Use Media Player Classic or Windows Media Player and ffdshow
• For more information on how to play back, encode and convert MP4 files, please refer to our MP4 Usage Guide

Input Files: 3GP, AAC, AC3, ASF, AVI, DTS, DVB, DVD, DVR-MS, FLC, H.264, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPG, OGG/OGM, SVCD, VCD, WAV, WMA, WMV

vlc-3.0.24-win64.exe Description: Download VLC media player (Windows 64-bit version) Version: 3.0.24 (added Sep 23, 2026 - view changelog) Size: 44.13 MB
vlc-3.0.24-intel64.dmg Description: Download VLC Media Player for Mac OS X (32/64 bit Intel Mac - for other Mac OS X systems, please refer to this page) Version: 3.0.24 (added Sep 23, 2026 - view changelog) Size: 60.53 MB
vlc-3.0.24-winarm64.exe Description: Download VLC Media Player for Mac OS (Apple Silicon Mac) Version: 3.0.24 (added Sep 23, 2026 - view changelog) Size: 38.77 MB
vlc-3.0.24-win32.exe Description: Download VLC media player (Windows 32-bit version) Version: 3.0.24 (added Sep 23, 2026 - view changelog) Size: 43.09 MB
Official Download page Description: All the files and instructions needed to install this software - also check out herefor the latest files

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H.264 Playback Guide     Description: A guide on how to play back H.264 files (MP4 + AAC), including a look at software including ffdshow, CoreAVC, Nero ShowTime

Version 3.0.24

• Release Date: Sep 23, 2026
• Download(s):
  vlc-3.0.24-win32.exe
  vlc-3.0.24-intel64.dmg
  vlc-3.0.24-win64.exe
  vlc-3.0.24-winarm64.exe
• Changes between 3.0.23 and 3.0.24:
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  Codecs:
   * Use FFmpeg 8.1 (upgraded from 4.4)
   * Support APV decoder (FFmpeg 8)
   * Support Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding
   * Remove schroedinger support for dirac in favor of avcodec
   * Fix Speex leaks and packetization issues
   * Fix WebVTT CSS parsing and error handling
   * Fix FLAC and HEVC packetizer edge cases
   * Fix AudioToolbox MIDI synthesizer crash on macOS 26+
  
  
  Demuxers:
   * Add support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4
   * Expose ID3v2 metadata in MPEG demuxer
   * Improve subtitle language detection from filenames and SSA/ASS metadata
   * Fix several MKV crashes, leaks, hangs and malformed file handling issues
   * Fix AVI hang with zero-sized strd chunks
   * Fix MP4, MPEG-TS, Ogg, RealAudio and subtitle demuxing edge cases
  
  
  Access:
   * Switch RIST input and output to librist, with main and simple profile support
   * Add SRT listener mode support
   * Add SFTP public key authentication options and ED25519 hostkey support
   * Update SMB2 share enumeration
   * Don't ship RealRTSP plugin (build disabled for all configurations)
  
  
  Service Discovery:
   * Include Chromecast model in mDNS renderer names
   * Fix IPv6 addresses in Bonjour service URLs
  
  
  Video Output:
   * Fix Direct3D11 adjust filter and texture leaks
   * Fix MediaCodec crop validation
   * Super Resolution scaling with Moore Threads GPUs
  
  
  Windows:
   * Support NV12 DirectShow capture
   * Improve UWP build and runtime compatibility
   * Fix mmdevice crashes, leaks and deadlocks
   * Generate debug symbols by default for Windows packages
  
  
  Interface:
   * Qt: Fix default open dialog location
   * Qt: Fix effects window geometry saving
   * Qt: Improve hotkeys dialog strings
  
  
  Stream Output:
   * Disable HEVC for original Chromecast devices
  
  
  Security:
   * Switch to a new RSA-4096 key for update verification
   * Fix multiple OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues
   * See https://www.videolan.org/security/
  
  
  Misc:
   * Add Flatpak build support
   * Fix Audio EQ filter High Frequency parameter
   * Fix artwork preparser crash when artwork title is null
   * Fix LibVLC media list player race
   * Remove NPAPI browser plugin
  
  
  Lua:
   * Remove broken youtube.lua plugin
  
  
  Windows:
   * Fix slow startup on Windows when Daylight Saving Time changes (#29685)
  
  
  Contrib:
   * Update libarchive to 3.8.8
   * Update libass to 0.17.5
   * Update aom to 3.15.0
   * Update amf to 1.5.2
   * Update asdcp to 2_13_2
   * Update chromaprint to 1.6.0
   * Update dav1d to 1.5.4
   * Update faad to 2.11.2
   * Update flac to 1.4.2
   * Update FFmpeg to 8.1.2
   * Update freetype to 2.14.3
   * Update gcrypt to 1.12.2
   * Update glew to 2.3.1
   * Update gme to 0.6.5
   * Update gnutls to 3.8.13
   * Update gpg-error to 1.61
   * Update harfbuzz to 14.2.1
   * Update jpeg to v9f
   * Update libbluray to 1.4.1
   * Update libebml to 1.4.6
   * Update libmad to 0.16.14
   * Update libmicrodns to 0.2.0
   * Update libtasn1 to 4.21.0
   * Update libxml2 to 2.15.3
   * Update matroska to 1.7.2
   * Update mpg123 to 1.33.6
   * Update mysofa to 1.2.1
   * Update nettle to 3.10.2
   * Update nfs to 6.0.2
   * Update openjpeg to 2.5.4
   * Update png to 1.6.58
   * Update protobuf to 3.4.1
   * Update opus to 1.6.1
   * Update shout to 2.4.6
   * Update SDL to 3.4.10
   * Update SDL_image to 3.4.4
   * Update smb2 to 6.1
   * Update srt to 1.5.6
   * Update ssh2 to 1.11.1
   * Update upnp to 1.14.20
   * Update vncclient to 0.9.15
   * Update vorbis to 1.3.7
   * Update x265 to 4.1
   * Update zlib to 1.3.2
   * Update zvbi to 0.2.45
   * Add librist 0.2.20
   * Switch mfx Library to Intel's vpl 2.13.0

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