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