It Looks Like VLC 3.0 Will Finally Be Released Soon

[schmidtbag]

Too big of a release. We had to wait way too long for this.
I wish we had more releases in between.
Some of these features and improvements we could probably have had long time ago.

I wish VLC and GIMP had better release management.

To be fair, I think many of these things are directly related to each other. For example, 360 videos tend to be very high resolution and might take advantage of 10-bit HEVC, which may benefit from OpenGL 4.4 or zero-copy decoding. That being said, it may have made more sense to release a version of VLC containing these "dependencies" first, and to release it sooner.

I do agree that the release cycles are a bit long though.

[nanonyme]

Finally :-) And it works on Wayland if the video is rendered instead of the main window in a second one.

I hope they default to that until the relevant bug is fixed

[SyXbiT]

This is precisely why I switched away from VLC to gnome-mpv.
VLC is a huge bloated mess with infrequent releases. I just want to play local video files with vdpau (or NVDEC) with support for keyboard shortcuts. I don't need HTTP2, systemd or almost 90% of the features VLC has.

[MoonMoon]

What does 'Optional systemd support.' mean?

systemd support is meant for VLC's web-interface, which runs as a daemon.

[zzarko]

I hope that they'll finally allow to place subtitles in fullscreen below the video, in the black bars, something almost all other video players do...

[Inopia]

Chromecast support finally! I've been casting videos from Chrome tab streaming for too long. It's a bother to mux/teanscode everything into a Chrome-supported format.

I just hope it can transcode transparently when needed and supports subtitles for Chromecast output.

[starshipeleven]

What does 'Optional systemd support.' mean?

In addition to what MoonMoon said, VLC is also a media server, so it has a headless media server daemon too.

[labyrinth153]

I’ve switched to IINA. Vlc hasn’t changed much in a long time.

[starshipeleven]

I’ve switched to IINA. Vlc hasn’t changed much in a long time.

(macOS user spotted)
For those wondering, it is a MPV derivative.

[labyrinth153]

I suppose I should say I used mpv on Linux. I don't know what it is about vlc that just irks me. The preferences pane with non working or duplicate options. Though HEVC support is nice!