VLC 2.0.4 has been released, this is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions, bugs and security issues. In this release all playback were improved notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud, adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams, and MSS playback through DMO libraries, fixes numerous issues and around a hundreds of bugs.
Find more info in the release notes.
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Installation
– For Ubuntu and LinuxMint use this stable repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc
For other Linux distribution download vlc2.0.4 from this link