VLC Player 3.0 is available: 8K, HDR, 360° and Cineform

One month ago, the last candidate for the Realease was announced at published, and now, after a waiting period of about 3 years, the next major version of the popular VLC player has finally been released. The VLC Player 3.0 now supports HDR, 360°-videos including 3-D audio, chromecast streaming and hardware acceleration of H. 264/H. 265-8-/10-bit videos, which enables playback of resolutions up to 8K (at 60 fps).

At the same time, versions were released for all major (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS) and small (Chromebooks and Windows RT) operating systems. Also new is the audio pass-through of HD audio codecs (such as E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD) via HDMI; support for up to 12-bit color depth, Blu-Ray Java menu and TTML subtitles; support for Ambisonic Audio with more than 8 audio channels;