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VLC App Gets Major Update With New Video Player Interface, NFS and SFTP Support, More

Posted March 21, 2022 at 2:22pm by iClarified · 6262 views
The popular VLC app for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS has been updated with numerous new features including a new video player interface, support for NFS and SFTP shares, and more.

This update adds a completely re-written video playback interface, adds support for browsing NFS and SFTP network shares, includes major speed improvements avoiding heating issues and greatly improves the local media library appearance especially for audio. Further, it enables a full black theme and access to all locally stored media including on external devices such as attached USB thumb drives. Of course, it adds various small fixes and many special interest features such as SAT>IP support.

What's New In This Version:
● Add new video player interface
● Add support to browse NFS and SFTP shares
● Replace previous UPnP integration with VLC's native support based on libupnp
· this improves compatibility with off-standard UPnP servers
● Replace previous FTP integration with VLC's native support
· this improves compatibility with servers using non-western text encodings and allows connections to servers with off-standard port configurations
● Add downloads from SMB servers
● Add support for http(s) downloads from servers requiring authentication
● Add grid layout for Audio library
● Major speed and performance improvements avoiding heating issues
● Fix storing user credentials for network shares
● Retain downloaded subtitles for locally stored media
● Automatic video deinterlacing (by default)
● Retain last opened media category
● Add support for Files.app as a source to open media without importing to VLC
· This allows playback from external devices, too!
● Add a queue view controller to switch between scheduled media items and for TV channel listings
● Add a full black theme for OLED devices
● Add rtsp-tcp option
● Add support for spatial audio with AirPods Pro and Max
● library: allow sorting tracks and albums by insertion date
● playback: allow up to 8x playback speed
● video: modify white point adaptation mode on modern iOS devices
● Add support for SAT>IP including custom channel lists
● Clicking previous during playback now resets the playback position instead of directly going to the previous item in list
● Add Select-All feature to media library screens
● Fix listing large number of media in Google Drive and Dropbox folders
● Major UI speed improvements for older iOS devices
● VLC still supports all devices running iOS 9.0 or later!

You can download VLC media player from the App Store for free.

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