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Hello everyone,

the updater in VLC (Windows) is (again) not working as it should.
A 3.0.18 updates to 3.0.20 instead of the current 3.0.21.
If one manually check for updates with v3.0.20, it is claimed that the current version is been used.

Is this a known problem?

Thanks and regards,
Martin

I have the same question... does VLC support WASAPI exclusive-mode streams?
Greetings, Martin

Hello, could it be that the updater is not working as it should? 3.0.12 downloads 3.0.14 (not 3.0.17.4) 3.0.14 downloads 3.0.16 (not 3.0.17.4) 3.0.16 does not load a new version at all 3.0.12 can be updated fine with a manually downloaded vlc-3.0.17.4-win64.exe. Tested on Windows 10 21H2 with the wi...

Nothing has to be corrected but the security of your PC. Because the exploit needs an access to the target computer, nothing comes with VLC itself. Sure, the DLL must first have been placed there, but wouldn't so many software blindly (without any verification) load it, the problem would not exist....