The folks over at VideoLAN have submitted the universal VLC application to Windows Store earlier today and Microsoft approved the submission. The new version of the media players comes a slew of bug fixes and improvements.
The long list of changes contains lots of fixes to the UI, as well as patches for some issues that have been reported by users in the past. For example, the developers included a fix for a potential deadlock when dismissing a dialog and another one for the camera roll appearing in the regular video collection.
The SD card discover bug on Windows Mobile has been addressed as well, along with a potential crash when switching between audio collection tabs. The media library re-indexing has been repaired and another potential crash when browsing folder.
By the number of bug fixes mentioned in the changelog, you might think that VLC was in beta, but it wasn't. The list of patches keeps going with a fix for a potential deadlock when discovering media and one for the wrong thumbnail being displayed in SMTC.
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Some improvements have been included in the update, such as the addition of support for encrypted password store and improved dialog navigation on Xbox One. Various other command bar improvements have confirmed, alongside enhancements to the hardware decoding support.
The update also brings new subtitle rendering engine with font fallback and previous/next buttons for video playback. You can now find the new universal VLC app version 2.2.0 in the Windows Store, if you want to give it a try.
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