VLC Media Player is a highly popular and versatile media player software that supports a wide range of audio and video formats. It supports many new devices' inputs, formats, and metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume, and device management, to improve VLC audio support.
With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video, and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC 2023.
