VLC Media Player 2.2.3 Improves MKV Tags Support, Fixes WMV Regression

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

VideoLAN released a new maintenance build for the stable 2.2 series of their popular, cross-platform, and open-source VLC Media Player software, version 2.2.3, for all supported platforms.

VLC Media Player 2.2.3 is now available for download and we’ve managed to get our hands on the internal changelog (attached at the end of the article for reference) so we can share with you what’s new in this point release, what has been changed since VLC Media Player 2.2.2, which was announced in January 2016.

There are fifteen bug fixes in VLC 2.2.3, covering various areas of the software, including demuxing, decoding, video output, skins, Qt port, as well as Mac OS X and Windows fixes. Taking a closer look, we can notice that VLC Media Player 2.2.3 addresses a regression with the Windows Media Video (WMV) format.

The MKV tags support has been improved, a potential MKV (Matroska) infinite loop was fixed, al… (read more)

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