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VLC 3.0 Media Player release

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It's not released yet - and the article in question links to our development server.

I've disabled all access to nightlies for win32/win64/mac for now since those binaries will not get update checks/will not be updated in a sane fashion. You should not be using them.

We're still working on a VLC 3.0 release, and will announce it when it's ready and our mirrors pick up all the binaries. Please have patience.

(VLC dev here)

VLC 3.0 is not released, no. The core code is tagged, but the release will not happen before a couple of days.

Great! VLC is one of the few desktop codes I use for decades now and it replaced Foobar2000 and Winamp, which were my previous favourites. So glad they also have a great mobile user interface (which is great on both Android and iOS). They can take the liberty to do that because VLC has a clean architecture with frontend-backend seperation. There are VLC frontends for the terminal (ncurses, asciiart), there used to be the wxWidgets one which is now Qt, there is a web server frontend, and all this is built into regular VLC binaries (as downloadable from the website or from your package manager) so it works out of the box.

It's also pretty great on Windows 10 Phone, here's hoping that version gets the 3.0 upgrade too.

The official page (https://www.videolan.org/) doesn't list it as released yet ("VLC 3.0.0 is tagged. Expect a release in the next 3 days... (if no big issue arise)") - so it seems to be in a "final final release candidate" state.

I'll be waiting at least the day or few and upgrading when it is fully released.

ah okay, that explains why check for updates on mac reports 2.2.8 as latest

I'll have a wait too.

The title should include an 'upcoming' or so to make it less confusing. The changelog is impressive though.

Does it let me open multiple windows on MacOS yet? For whatever reason, the latest update of the os, forces all MP4 files to "convert" in quicktime. So I had to switch up to VLC. One window at a time is horrible though.

Not sure about Mac but there's an option for that in the windows version at least.

Tools -> Preferences -> Playlist and Instances

"Allow only one instance" and "Use only one instance when started from file manager", uncheck both to allow more than one window at a time all the time.

Yeh that doesn't exist under MacOS.

I've been using mpv on linux and windows for the past year, mostly because I can launch it with an url and it will use youtube-dl behind the scenes to open it.

I'll take a look, see what this new version of vlc is capable of.

VLC supports Youtube URL since a long time.

So long as you didn't seek.

As said xori, VLC works beautifully with a lot of things/streams, but has quirks I've not encountered with youtube-dl (which works with a number of sites other than youtube)

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