Install VLC Media Player 4.0 on Ubuntu & Linux Mint System

VideoLAN or VLC, an open source cross-platform which plays huge amount of media formats including DVDs, Audio CDs and VCDs saw a major release recently… and this brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install it on Ubuntu desktops.

VLC is a very popular open source project… and its software works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux to provide users the ability to play different media formats… If you’re looking for a media player that plays almost all media formats, then VLC is a good place to start..

Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
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Platform support changes:
 * 4.0.x requires:
     - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
     - macOS 10.11 or later
     - iOS 9 or later
     - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
     - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)

Audio output:
 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
   Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.

Demuxer:
 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
 * Support for DASH WebM
 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection

Codecs:
 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
 * WebVTT encoder
 * Remove iomx support for Android
 * WebP image decoding
 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
 * Support IMM4 decoder

Access:
 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now

Access output:
 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol

Video output:
 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
 * Remove aa plugin
 * Remove evas plugin
 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
 * Remove Real demuxer plugin

Stream output:
 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
   Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers

macOS:
 * Remove Growl notification support

appleOS:
 * Improved proxy configuration handling

To Install VLC Media Player 4.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint System :

To install on ubuntu 18.04 bionic, Ubuntu 18.10 cosmic, Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo and Linux Mint 19, open terminal and follow this command :

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:videolan/master-daily to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

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

$ sudo apt-get update

To install vlc media player 4, do :

$ sudo apt-get install vlc

To remove VLC Media 4.0, do :

$ sudo apt-get remove vlc*