Late last week VideoLAN hase released version 3.0.0 of its popular media playing client VLC. With this versione, VLC packs more interesting features that are going to make the software even more popular. For example we are delighted by the support for hardware accelerated 4K and 8K playback and HDR support.

As you might know VLC is an open source media player that has been in development for more than 15 years. For quite a long time, VLC has been the perfect solution for playing all that video formats that required advanced codecs. In other words, with VLC you don't need any add-on codec packs since most of the file formats are supported. Furthermore VLC is spyware-free and there aren't ads as well.

With the version 3.0.0, VLC now activates hardware decoding by default in order to get 4K and 8K playback. In addition it's now compatible with 10bits and HDR movies. On following you can find all the official highlights of the new release. You can download VLC on the official site or on various app stores. As always it's available for Windows, Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Android and iOS.

• VLC 3.0 activates hardware decoding by default, to get 4K and 8K playback
• It supports 10bits and HDR
• VLC supports 360 video and 3D audio, up to Ambisoncics 3rd order
• Allows audio passthrough for HD audio codecs
• Can stream to Chromecast devices, even in formats not supported natively
• Can play Blu-Ray Java menus: BD-J
• VLC supports browsing of local network drives and NAS

Source: VideoLAN