The popular VLC video player has released a new update for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Upcoming update loaded with several important news both in terms of playback capabilities and design and interface.
Several very attractive new features for Apple platforms
As announced by VideoLAN Organization, the developer of VLC, version 3, which is called Vetinari, contains several important new features. Many of them focused on the capabilities of the player itself, while later updates, such as 3.3.0 for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV at hand, focus their attention on interface improvements, redesigns and small details. As far as abilities are concerned, the main changes that version 3 brought us are the following:
- VLC 3.0 enables hardware decoding by default, for 4K and 8K playback.
- Admit 10-bit and HDR.
- VLC supports 360 video and 3D audio, up to 3rd order Ambisonics.
- Allows audio pass-through for HD audio codecs.
- You can cast to Chromecast devices, even in formats not natively supported.
- You can play Blu-Ray Java: BD-J menus.
- VLC supports browsing local network drives and NAS.
- Adds native support for Apple silicon chips (3.0.12).
As for new designs and capacity adjustments, enter specifically in version 3.3 of the application for iPhone, iPad or Apple TV, there is a long list of new features:
- Adds a new video player interface.
- Adds support for browsing NFS and SFTP shares.
- Replaces previous UPnP integration with native VLC support based on libupnp (this improves compatibility with non-standard UPnP servers).
- Replaces previous FTP integration with native VLC support (this improves compatibility with servers using non-Western text encodings and allows connections to servers with non-standard port settings).
- Add downloads from SMB servers.
- Add support for http(s) downloads from servers requiring authentication.
- Adds a new grid layout for the audio library.
- Fixed storing user credentials for network shares.
- Keep downloaded subtitles for locally stored media.
- Enable automatic video deinterlacing.
- Adds support for Files app as a source to open media without importing into VLC.
- Adds a queue view controller for switching between scheduled media items and for TV channel listings.
- Adds a completely dark theme for OLED devices.
- Add spatial audio support with AirPods Pro and Max.
- Allows you to sort tracks and albums by date added to library.
- Allows up to 8 playback speeds.
A fairly comprehensive update that still makes VLC a reference during reproduction certain types of formats on our devices. Without forgetting alternatives like Infuse, for example, it is clear that in VLC we find an excellent application to manage videos.
