Wednesday, October 13, 2010
VLC Media Player Coming to iPhone and iPod Touch
Applidium, the software company who ported media player VLC to the iPad, has announced that a universal iOS version was under review by Apple and that they expect it to be quickly approved. Since Apple approved the iPad version for the App Store last month, it?s overwhelmingly likely that iPhone and iPod touch users will soon be able to download VLC as well.
VLC Media Player brings support for a tremendous number of popular media file formats to iOS devices, particularly movie and audio files that QuickTime can?t play. Demand for VLC from iPhone users was strong enough that an unofficial port was available for jailbroken phones more than two years ago.
Wired.com?s Charlie Sorrel got an early hands-on with VLC for iPad, and called it simpler and prettier than the desktop app, while remaining just as versatile. Now that some bugs have been fixed and features have been added, iPhone and iPod Touch users will get to see an even better iteration.
Unfortunately, it looks like users of older iPhones and iPod Touches will be left behind. Only the iPhone 4 and 3GS and their same-generation iPod touch counterparts will be officially supported. According to Applidium, the iPhone 3G and earlier models don?t have the processing power to do the on-the-fly decoding VLC requires.
Other changes include support for opening media files from Mail or Safari directly in VLC, bug fixes and some speed improvements.
VLC pour iPhone et iPod bient�t disponible sur l?AppStore [Applidium]
Image by Applidium
See Also:
VLC for iPad 'Next Week'
Apple Approves VLC Video Player for iPad
Hands-On With VLC Movie Player for iPad
VLC Ported to the IPhone
Interview With The Creator of VLC4iPhone
Free App Plays AVI Movies on iPad
Five Things Google's Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook
Hands On With Two Universal Media Players for the iPhone
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