VLC Juxtopposed Redesign - 4.0.0-beta.5

Windows x86_64 portable build, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon app bundles, and Linux x86_64 portable archive
Git tag: 4.0.0-beta.5

Full Changelog: 4.0.0-beta.4...4.0.0-beta.5

This beta continues adapting Juxtopposed's VLC design for the native player. Work on the interface and settings workflow continues.

Changes since 4.0.0-beta.4:

• Browse local series and podcast episodes from the player, switch seasons, view episode details and saved playback progress, and play or resume an episode. Improve episode title parsing and keep podcast metadata and listening progress through feed refreshes.
• Show audio waveforms automatically for supported files and network shares, and build streaming waveforms as audio plays. Keep waveforms stable when an MP3 duration estimate changes. Improve seek tooltips, timestamp seeking and saved-position resume prompts, with “Continue listening” for audio.
• Improve media identity matching for subtitles, music and podcasts. Rank online subtitle matches using available media information, expose identity corrections, and show cue text in zoomed subtitle timelines.
• Resolve local artwork, compose folder previews and expose artwork choices throughout the library. Refresh generated playlist and collection artwork when their contents change. Improve searchable codec information, playback statistics, extra metadata and online tag lookup while preserving unsaved edits.
• Select media with a single click and play it with a double click. Retain library focus and saved playback progress while browsing, and keep library loading from stalling panel animations.
• Browse channels from opened and saved network playlists, apply podcast feed edits without restarting discovery, and keep sidebar navigation available when the media library is unavailable.
• Refine settings layouts, typography, help text and readability across themes and display scales. Apply more playback, audio, video, subtitle and proxy settings to the active player.
• Extend backdrop blur to more native video surfaces on macOS, X11 and Wayland, and improve software-rendered UI blur. Improve picture fitting, rotation, artwork layout, menu and player icons, and floating-panel rendering.
• Refresh native Open Media, capture, conversion, streaming and broadcast management dialogs. Preserve selected sources and settings when retrying, and improve destination and output validation.
• Modernize the Equalizer, Video Effects, detailed audio controls, camera settings and synchronization controls while preserving current values and saved filters.
• Improve Help search, Messages filtering and save recovery, plugin and extension management, bookmarks and the program guide. Make errors, warnings and text prompts clearer and easier to navigate.
• Preserve queue intent when reviewing multiple clipboard items, protect playlist exports from accidental replacement, and retain save choices when retrying an export.
• Check for updates directly from About, show optional release announcements, and improve the update window's release notes, browser links and dismissal behavior. Downloads and installation remain manual.
• Fix subtitle restoration after seeking in Matroska files, preserve subtitles in hardware video snapshots, improve audio encoder draining, and include upstream playback fixes. Honor filename-display preferences and configured shortcut feedback, and play newly opened files correctly when forwarding them to an existing Windows instance.
• Fix Linux Wayland EGL startup crashes caused by bundled libraries conflicting with newer host graphics drivers (#26). Keep the matching Qt plugins and use the host's Wayland libraries alongside its graphics drivers.
• Keep release downloads focused on the application archives and checksums. Build metadata remains available in the workflow artifacts.

Use:

• Close earlier VLC windows before starting this build. Keep each download's complete contents together.
• Windows 10 (1809 or later) / Windows 11, x64: extract vlc-juxtopposed-4.0.0-beta.5-win64.zip, then open vlc-win64/vlc.exe. The empty portable folder stores settings beside the app. To reuse portable settings, copy your previous portable folder while VLC is closed.
• macOS: choose macos-arm64 for Apple Silicon or macos-x86_64 for Intel. Extract the ZIP and move VLC Juxtopposed.app into a folder of your choice. If macOS blocks it, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway after attempting to open it.
• Linux: extract vlc-juxtopposed-4.0.0-beta.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, then run AppDir/AppRun. Keep the complete AppDir folder together. The build targets glibc 2.35 or later (Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent) and does not require FUSE.
• Update notifications open the matching release page. Downloading and replacing the application remains manual.
• Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt if desired. The table below identifies the exact source commit for each package; detailed build metadata remains in the workflow artifacts.

Current limits:

• The redesign is in progress. These are experimental builds; platform coverage does not mean every playback path has been tested.
• Windows executables have no trusted publisher signature. Mac apps are ad-hoc signed without a Developer ID signature or Apple notarization. Operating systems may warn or block the first launch.
• Mac downloads are separate native builds; choose the correct architecture. Build metadata records the minimum supported macOS version.
• Linux still uses the host's graphics drivers and desktop/audio services; behavior can vary between distributions.
• HDR and maximum resolution settings apply to the next video. Some advanced flows still use the existing VLC interface.
• Previews for large videos or network files can take time, and decoding can still fail.
• The media library database must be on a local drive; media folders may be on a network share.
• Episode and subtitle matching depends on the available filenames and metadata. Saved folder rules support local tracks for future episodes; future online subtitle searches are not automatic.

Package	Binary source commit	Download
win64	958859ebb3f02e526fc0ec8f99336434e6143739	download
macos-arm64	958859ebb3f02e526fc0ec8f99336434e6143739	download
macos-x86_64	958859ebb3f02e526fc0ec8f99336434e6143739	download
linux-x86_64	958859ebb3f02e526fc0ec8f99336434e6143739	download

VLC Juxtopposed Redesign - 4.0.0-beta.4

Windows x86_64 portable build, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon app bundles, and Linux x86_64 portable archive
Git tag: 4.0.0-beta.4

Full Changelog: beta-3...4.0.0-beta.4

This beta adapts Juxtopposed's VLC design for the native player. Work on the interface and settings workflow continues.

Changes since beta-3:

• Customize the player controls with drag and drop, save named layout presets, and remember full and compact library layouts independently.
• Add transparency and blur controls for floating player panels, menus, seek previews and settings, with improved software rendering fallbacks.
• Expand Global Settings and connect more controls to playback: audio effects, pitch, spatializer, visualizations, subtitle appearance, buffering, casting, hardware decoding and post-processing.
• Apply more settings while VLC is open, including startup behavior, window appearance, tray notifications, logging and developer controls.
• Change the interface language without restarting. Expand redesigned interface translations for British English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Russian, Italian and Turkish.
• Show expandable source groups in the queue and retain collapsed groups when switching panels.
• Show saved playback progress on folder video cards and sort folder videos by watch state without importing them first.
• Add the hosted file browser, improve native media dialogs, and extend the redesign styling to more dialogs and tooltips.
• Improve the Messages window, preserve selection and scrolling while logs arrive, and limit retained log history.
• Fix fullscreen controls, Windows titlebar hit testing, cached graphics startup, resize behavior, cursor restoration, proxy handling and single-instance startup behavior.
• Improve visualization resizing, stereo testing, subtitle rendering, streaming defaults and video color handling. Include upstream fixes.
• Check this fork’s GitHub releases daily, offer only newer compatible builds, and open the matching release page for downloads. Adopt 4.0.0-beta.N version tags.
• Add release packaging for Linux and for both Mac architectures, using the redesigned Qt interface.

Use:

• Close earlier VLC windows before starting this build. Keep each download's complete contents together.
• Windows 10 (1809 or later) / Windows 11, x64: extract vlc-juxtopposed-4.0.0-beta.4-win64.zip, then open vlc-win64/vlc.exe. The empty portable folder stores settings beside the app. To reuse portable settings, copy your previous portable folder while VLC is closed.
• macOS: choose macos-arm64 for Apple Silicon or macos-x86_64 for Intel. Extract the ZIP and move VLC Juxtopposed.app into a folder of your choice. If macOS blocks it, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway after attempting to open it.
• Linux: extract vlc-juxtopposed-4.0.0-beta.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, then run AppDir/AppRun. Keep the complete AppDir folder together. The build targets glibc 2.35 or later (Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent) and does not require FUSE.
• Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt if desired. Build metadata identifies the exact source commit for each asset.

Current limits:

• The redesign is in progress. These are experimental builds; platform coverage does not mean every playback path has been tested.
• Windows executables have no trusted publisher signature. Mac apps are ad-hoc signed for local execution, without a Developer ID signature or Apple notarization. Operating systems may warn or block the first launch.
• Mac downloads are separate native builds; choose the correct architecture. The build metadata records the required macOS version from the bundled binaries.
• Linux still uses the host's graphics drivers and desktop/audio services; behavior can vary between distributions.
• HDR and maximum resolution settings apply to the next video. Some advanced flows still use the existing VLC interface.
• Previews for large videos or network files can take time, and decoding can still fail.
• The media library database must be on a local drive; media folders may be on a network share.
• Subtitle search does not yet parse every episode title or year. Saved folder rules support local tracks for future episodes; future online searches are not automatic.

Package	Binary source commit	Download
win64	aefe5810fd62bc116f3f05491fb3f9cc83b2ba23	download
macos-arm64	b876f75f43130249162796fd3057e1327e2b1d2b	download
macos-x86_64	aefe5810fd62bc116f3f05491fb3f9cc83b2ba23	download
linux-x86_64	b876f75f43130249162796fd3057e1327e2b1d2b	download

VLC Juxtopposed Redesign - beta-3

Windows x86_64 portable build
Source commit: 9f0fd564060ab599a9a86f2a5fc61d8f1f3006ea
Git tag: beta-3

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dsojevic/juxtopposed-vlc/commits/beta-3

This beta adapts Juxtopposed's VLC design for the native player. Work on the interface and settings workflow continues.

Changes since beta-2:

• Floating queue, bookmark and chapter panels. Audio and subtitle buttons now close their own popup when clicked again.
• Expanded library, mini player, saved shortcuts, folder artwork, sorting and playlist editing.
• Add and manage audio and subtitle files for a file, folder or playlist. Match nearby tracks, save folder rules, or add subtitle links.
• Search and download subtitles with OpenSubtitles. Builds can include an optional app key. Users can also enter their own API key and account details in settings.
• Redesigned media information and metadata editing, folder actions, playlist properties and playlist export.
• Restore volume changes with the mouse wheel over the cone. Keep the cone artwork loaded to prevent flicker.
• Apply the selected accent colour to seekbars, sliders and other control fills.
• Fix thumbnail height for videos with large pixel-aspect-ratio values. Keep the correct visible-frame proportions and remove the dark preview outline.
• Fix bookmark creation and selection updates, order bookmarks by time, and use each chapter's own title.
• Fix tooltip flicker and clipping, subtitle appearance controls, and audio device selection.
• Fix fullscreen exit controls and menu toggle behavior.
• Fix settings storage in protected folders. If the portable folder is not writable, use the Windows user settings folder.
• Fix slow folder-track operations with Windows network paths and portable profiles stored on a WSL share.
• Fix Windows shutdown paths, including artwork workers, output changes, and overlapping VLC processes.
• Include upstream fixes and reviewed Linux Wayland, video embedding and PipeWire fixes.

Use:

• Extract the complete ZIP to a Windows folder.
• Open vlc-win64/vlc.exe.
• Keep the DLLs and plugin folders with the executable.
• The empty portable folder stores this copy's settings beside the app.
• Close earlier VLC windows before you start this build.
• To use existing portable settings, copy your previous portable folder into the new vlc-win64 folder while VLC is closed.

Current limits:

• The redesign is in progress.
• This beta is unsigned and Windows may warn you when you open it.
• HDR and maximum resolution settings apply to the next video.
• Some advanced flows still use the existing VLC interface.
• Previews for large videos or network files can take time, and decoding can still fail.
• The media library database must be on a local drive; the media folders can be on a network share.
• Subtitle search does not yet parse every episode title or year from file names.
• Saved folder rules support local tracks for future episodes; future online searches are not automatic.

VLC Juxtopposed Redesign - beta-2

Windows x86_64 portable build
Source commit: b250d7bcc63cd2022f38082b275a6502eb130777
Git tag: beta-2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dsojevic/juxtopposed-vlc/commits/beta-2

This beta adapts Juxtopposed's VLC design for the native player. Work on the interface and settings workflow continues.

Changes since beta-1:

• New first-run setup and the Inter interface font.
• Video previews on the seekbar. Previews are on by default. To change this, go to Settings > Playback > Seeking > Show video previews on the seekbar.
• A small background preview cache. The player shows the nearest cached frame while it loads a closer frame.
• Subtitle cue times on the seekbar, with zoom and subtitle delay controls. This option is in the player's Playback settings panel.
• New main and context menus, recent files, and keyboard access to the context menu.
• Media library support in the Windows build. The Home sidebar has video and music history, visited folders and playlists, and played artists.
• Improved folder navigation, library actions, and dragging media to the queue.
• Fixes for queue startup, seeking past the end, and stopping playback. A seek drag holds the final frame until you release it.
• Fixes for startup when the compiled QML cache cannot be used.
• Fixes for adding Windows UNC network folders, creating empty playlists, and fullscreen toolbar flicker at the timeline.

Use:

• Extract the complete ZIP to a Windows folder.
• Open vlc-win64/vlc.exe.
• Keep the DLLs and plugin folders with the executable.
• The empty portable folder stores this copy's settings beside the app.
• Close earlier VLC windows before you start this build.
• To use existing portable settings, copy your previous portable folder into the new vlc-win64 folder while VLC is closed.

Current limits:

• The redesign is in progress.
• This beta is unsigned and Windows may warn you when you open it.
• HDR and maximum resolution settings apply to the next video.
• Some advanced flows still use the existing VLC interface.
• Previews for large videos or network files can take time, and decoding can still fail.
• The media library database must be on a local drive; the media folders can be on a network share.

VLC Juxtopposed Redesign - beta-1

Windows x86_64 portable build
Source commit: f8d0280e15c477993ce69cc677bdc106a5b5829a
Git tag: beta-1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dsojevic/juxtopposed-vlc/commits/beta-1

This beta adapts Juxtopposed's VLC design for the native player. Work on the interface and settings workflow continues.

Included in this beta:

• Player, library sidebar, playback panels, and automatic settings save.
• Compact video defaults and Essential, Crop, Colors, Geometry, Overlay, and Advanced filter groups.
• Text and image overlays, live filter changes, and saved player presets.
• Fixes for Windows icons, the cone-shaped volume slider, and process shutdown.

Use:
Extract the complete ZIP to a Windows folder. Open vlc-win64/vlc.exe. Keep the DLLs and plugin folders with the executable. The empty portable folder stores this copy's settings beside the app.

Current limits:
The redesign is in progress. This beta is unsigned and Windows may warn you when you open it. HDR and maximum resolution settings apply to the next video. Some advanced flows still use the existing VLC interface.