{"id":2924,"date":"2017-05-25T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2021-04-02T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T03:37:09","slug":"vlc-2-2-6-media-player-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/25\/vlc-2-2-6-media-player-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 2.2.6 Media Player released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tor\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sicherheit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vlc_thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/vlc-2-2-6-media-player-freigegeben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]The VideoLan project has released version 2.2.6 of VLC player. VLC is available for macOS, Linux and Windows. VLC version 2.2.6 is a maintenance update. Here are a view details. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/c1bc46dab3ba4b09b673bbf0d042fff2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">I've mentioned it within my blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/25\/subtitles-put-video-player-at-risk-hacked-in-translation\/\">Subtitles put video player at risk\u2013hacked in translation<\/a>: Video players are vulnerable. Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide \u2013 attack by subtitles viewed in media players. Also old VLC media player versions are vulnerable. VideoLan has released a security update 2.2.5.1 for VLC player (Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments). <\/p>\n<h2>VLC version 2.2.6<\/h2>\n<p>Now VLC player version 2.2.6 has been released. During writing the German blog post, the new version is listed on th e<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VideoLAN main site<\/a>, but on sub pages, the old version 2.2.5.1 was still linked. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"VLC Media Player Version 2.2.6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"VLC Media Player Version 2.2.6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/VLC2.2.6_thumb.jpg\" width=\"412\" height=\"342\">  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Where can I get version 2.2.6, what's changed?<\/h2>\n<p>VLC version 2.2.6 ist offered for download at <a href=\"http:\/\/download.videolan.org\/pub\/videolan\/vlc\/2.2.6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTP site<\/a>. The Changelogs published online doesn't provide details what ahs changed. But the file <em>NEWS.txt <\/em>dowloaded with VLC 2.2.6 contains the following change log:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video output<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix systematic green line on nvidia\n<li>Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Demuxer<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix heap buffer overflows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What should I know else?<\/h3>\n<p>I guess the majority of my blog readers are using Windows. Windows users should know the following. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thee <em>.exe <\/em>download from VideoLan project comes with an installer. The same occurs with <em>.msi <\/em>files found on FTP server.\n<li>The portable version of VLC player may be obtained as <em>.zip <\/em>or .<em>7z a<\/em>rchive files. Unpack into a local folder and execute the .exe file. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another tip: The <em>.zip<\/em> archive of VLC player has 50 MB in size, while <em>.7z <\/em>archives are 28 MB in size. But .7z also contains the sdk folder with an ActiveX for IE 11 and Visual Basic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]The VideoLan project has released version 2.2.6 of VLC player. VLC is available for macOS, Linux and Windows. VLC version 2.2.6 is a maintenance update. 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