VLC

VLC PS5 v0.3

Fixes Blu-ray menus, subtitles from anywhere, and VLC moves to the Media tab.

What's new

• Disc menu and Pop-up menu: in Tracks › Playback while a DVD or Blu-ray plays, to go back to the disc's menu, or open a Blu-ray's pop-up menu over the film
• Blu-ray region: Settings › Playback › Blu-ray region (A, B or C), for discs that only play in their region. It starts from your language; change it if a disc says it can't play
• Add any subtitle file: Tracks › Subtitles › Add a subtitle file opens Browse, so you can pick a subtitle from the media folder, a USB drive or a network share, for any video
• Subtitles found everywhere: a subtitle next to the video with the same name (Movie.srt, Movie.en.srt, Movie - English.ass, or in a Subs folder) now loads by itself from network shares and links too, not only from USB
• Subtitles in any language's encoding: older subtitle files saved as Chinese (GBK, Big5), Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Polish or Western European text now show the right letters instead of garbage
• VLC is in the Media tab of the home screen.

Fixed

• DLNA media servers weren't found when VLC runs without full access (no Helper): the console already uses the port DLNA listens on, and VLC gave up. It now finds servers by asking for them
• Subtitles inside videos (SRT tracks in MKV files) and .srt files didn't show at all on the PS5. Styled .ass subtitles were never affected
• The bottom of the picture was cut off on some videos (1024x560, 720x368 and other sizes that aren't a multiple of 16)
• Blu-ray menus didn't react to the D-pad or ✕
• A Blu-ray's menu could reopen the disc in fast decoding and lose your place in the menus
• A false "can't keep up" right after resuming from pause or adding a subtitle