![]() ![]() ![]() The hashes are identical.Īs a result I’m confident that the ‘insecure site’ warning is a false positive caused by the site’s certificate and have emailed to let the university know of the issue (with a link to this post). It looks like VLC updates in Win 10 use a direct download from VLC itself whilst VLC running in Win 7 uses the University of Kent’s mirror service.īack on my Win 7 PC I used SecurityXploded’s Hash Compare 3 to compare the 64-bit executables from VLC ( ) and from the mirror service ( )… and compared them to the SHA256 hash posted on VLC. Then I went to carry out an upgrade of VLC 3.0.6 in a VM using the University of Kent’s, i.e. Note, however, that there are multiple posts in the VLC support forum about the Windows version of 3.0.7, mainly about issues with green artefacts when playing MKV and MP4 files.Īfter my first post I did some testing using the direct download link and have experienced no artefacts so far using both MP4 and MKV formats. If you want to update anyway, download the update directly from VLC itself:Ħ4-bit direct download links for Windows:ģ2-bit direct download links for Windows:ĭirect download links for other platforms: The certificate issue with the mirror service isn’t mentioned. However, just in case, I went to the VLC support forum. There is nothing in VLC’s preferences to only use direct downloads, not a mirror service. Note that this is an issue with the mirror service in the UK (run by the University of Kent) not with VLC itself. I went to use VLC media player 3.0.6 and this update notice popped up:Ĭlicking on the Yes button led to this warning about an insecure site: ![]()
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