VLC Media Player receives support for Macs with ARM processor and fixes audio problems

Source: Geeknetic added 19th Jan 2021

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by Jordi Bercial Ago 10 minutes ago

VideoLAN has released a new version of its renowned media player VLC Media Player, and has done it mainly to add support for Mac computers with Apple Silicon M1 processors, at the same time that some changes have been made to the application, as we will see below.

When updating VLC to version 3.0. 12, we will have the latest version compiled for Intel processors , so that we will have to update the application again so that version 3.0 appears. 12. 1, which is compiled for Apple Silicon , and therefore will work in native mode instead of through Rosetta 2.

The latest version of VLC adds support for the RIST protocol, improves handling of settings for variable resolution broadcasts, updates scripts for YouTube and Vocaroo , tunes the web interface and patches various security issues , so this is a fairly comprehensive update.

Likewise, some problems are solved, because until now there were some problems in macOS that affected the audio played by the application , at the same time that some problems with Direct3D video filters could cause unexpected application closings , which They have also been fixed to provide a much better user experience.

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Jordi Bercial

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