VLC 2.2.4 Media Player Released, Available PPA For Ubuntu Derivatives System

VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

Simple, fast and powerful

• Plays everything - Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
• Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed - MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
• Runs on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android ...
• Completely Free - no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.

A video streaming app

The application can be used as a server to stream video in UDP/RTP Unicast or Multicast on IPv4 and IPv6 high-bandwidth networks. It also supports the HTTP, FTP and MMS protocols. Users will be able to use different video filters on movies, including deinterlace, crop, image wall, brightness, saturation, contrast, rotate, upside down, and logo overlay.

What's new in VLC 2.2.4

• Decoder:
• Fix crash in G.711 wav files
• Fix mp3 crash in libmad
• Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)

• Qt:
• Fix resizing issues

• Win32:
• Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output

• Misc:
• Build fixes for Hurd
• Translations updated:
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• German
• French
• Italian
• Marathi
• Norwegian Bokmål
• Norwegian Nynorsk
• Portuguese
• Slovak
• Spanish (Mexico)
• Swedish,
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese

How to Update / Upgrade to VLC 2.2.4 Media Player on Ubuntu / Linux Miint :

To install and upgrade VLC 2.2.4 Media Player on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Because it is available via PPA, installing VLC 2.2.2 on  Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install vlc

Optional, to remove vlc, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove vlc

VLC Media Player is available in a Beta form on the Google Play Store for the Android platform, and in the last few years it became one of the most used media player applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.