VLC
Version 3.0.1 Freeware
Powerful Media Player
CORE
Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change
Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels
Subtitles size modification during playback
Secure passwords storage
ACCELERATION
Hardware decoding and display on all platforms
HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android
Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox
CODECS
BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders
OggSpots video decoder
New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
New BPG decoder based on libbpg
TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders
TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant
Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder
Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708
New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows
PROTOCOLS AND DEVICES
Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO
Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support
Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases
Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF
Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks
Support for HTTP 2.0
Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing
Support for SRT streaming protocol
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Utilities, Video
Requires at least macOS 10.12 Sierra or any more recent version

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