How to Install VLC 2.2.5.1 on Ubuntu Desktop

    VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

VLC 2.2.5.1 Changelog:
Misc:

• Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
• Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
• Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
• Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
• Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
• Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
• Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes

Decoder:

• Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
• Fix video scaling in VDPAU
• Fix playback of palettized codecs
• Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
• Fix AES3 16bps decoding
• Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
• Fix SCTE-27 colors

Demuxer:

• Fix possible ASF integer overflow
• Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
• Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
• Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
• Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
• Fix flac null-pointer dereference
• Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks

Video output:

• Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
• Fix screenshots size

Access:

• Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
• Fix FTP scan string injection
• Fix HTTP size handling

Mux:

• Fix mp4 drift

Lua:

• Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts

Audio filter:

• Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter

Windows:

• The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
• Fix uninstaller path handling
• Fix taskbar buttons behavior

MacOS:

• Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
• Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items

Installation instructions: 
 
    Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vlc $ wget -c download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/2.2.5.1/vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz $ tar -xJvf vlc-2.2.5.1.tar.xz $ cd vlc-2.2.5.1 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install

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