After more than a year of testing, the official stable version of VLC media player is now supported on Windows 11 PCs with Arm processors. A new test version, 3.0.22 RC1, is available now and includes native support for Arm64, along with other improvements and bug fixes.
This update includes a fix for Windows XP Service Pack 3, which will be welcome news for the small number of users still running that older operating system. Linuxiax.com first noticed this new release candidate, marking the first of its kind for VLC in a year.
You can check out the release candidate changelog below.
- Add option to use dark palette (Qt)
- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5
- Add Windows ARM64 builds
- Fix support for Windows XP SP3
- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows
- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP
- Fix Opus channel mapping
- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video
- Add dav1d-all-layers option
- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing
- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4
- Disable decoding using libdca, libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec
- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option
- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska
- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck
- Handle pictures in FLAC
- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally
- Cut QNap title on first invalid character
- Fix display of certain JPEG files
- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)
- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others)
- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS
- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback –
- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi
- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP
- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)
Version 3.0.22 RC1 is still in testing, so it’s not yet available for direct download. You can build it yourself from the VLC GitHub repository, or wait for the official release to install or update like usual.
As a researcher following Windows development, I’ve noticed a growing trend of apps adding support for the Windows on Arm platform. Just recently, VLC joined that list. It’s exciting to see the progress Microsoft has made; they’ve reported that users are spending 90% of their time on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs using native apps, which is a significant indicator of the platform’s success.
This is a significant step forward. Just a few years ago, app developers largely overlooked the platform, but now almost all popular apps – like VLC – are designed to work natively on Windows on Arm.
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