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VLC for iPad hits the store

by Michael Rose (Sep 20th, 2010)

Just like that, the multi-format video playback app VLC has now made it to the App Store in the form of VLC Media Player for iPad. As Chris reported a couple of weeks ago, the much-beloved open source media tool has been ported and is now available for free download. We're grabbing our copy right ...

VLC coming to the iPad

by Chris Rawson (Sep 9th, 2010)

VLC, the play-anything video player for the Mac, may soon be available as an iPad app. App maker Applidium has spent months porting the open source player into an iPad app and has submitted it to the App Store. Now they're just waiting for Apple to approve it; if approved, the app will be available ...

iPhone devsugar: App Store approval in...one hour?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 18th, 2010)

Approximately one hour after uploading his new application update to iTunes Connect, Bristol-based iPhone developer Rob Jonson of Hobbyist software got the surprise of his week: an official Apple green light. His latest update to his VLC Remote application had been approved and was ready for sale. ...

Development of VLC for Mac 64-bit is on hold, project needs developers

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 17th, 2009)

Development on the 64-bit version of VLC Player for Mac has hit the pause button. The Videolan team is looking for Mac development talent to help move the project forward, and revamp the program's interface to be more Mac-like. While the team says that reports of VLC Mac's death are 'greatly ...

VLC 1.0.2 includes 64-bit Mac port and security fixes

by TJ Luoma (Sep 28th, 2009)

VideoLAN's popular cross-platform open source media player VLC 1.0.2 is now available with an important security update. The rest of the release notes are rather terse and nerdy: "BEWARE: this release is not compatible with Tiger. This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, ...

VLC 1.0.0 released

by Robert Palmer (Jul 7th, 2009)

While being a useful tool for several years now, VLC has finally reached that first pinnacle of software development: 1.0. VLC is an alternative media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that handles a wide variety of media file formats without requiring additional software (like Perian) to be ...

VLC 0.8.6d improves Leopard compatibility

by Mat Lu (Dec 1st, 2007)

Since upgrading to Leopard some folks have been having trouble with the popular open-source video player VLC from VideoLAN. Fortunately, the project has just released 0.8.6d substantially improving Leopard compatibility. The changes include video output improvements as well as support for the Apple ...

VLC patched with MOAB fix

by Michael Rose (Jan 4th, 2007)

See, that didn't take long! VideoLAN's VLC media player has been revised to version 0.8.6a, which closes the vulnerability noted by Month of Apple Bugs and also makes improvements to Full Screen Mode. If you aren't already using VLC for its incredible powers of playback and streaming, now would be ...

VLC 0.8.6 released

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2006)

VideoLan Client version 0.8.6 just went live over at videolan.org. The new update includes support for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller, and support for the Apple Remote. Other improvements include "vastly ...

VLC 0.8.5 released with Intel Mac, Growl support, many improvements

by David Chartier (May 7th, 2006)

The most excellent jack-of-many-formats VLC media player has just reached version 0.8.5, and boy does it pack a whallop - just check out the release notes. The biggest new additions to write home about are Universal Binary support, Growl notifications, a statistics system, new skin support ...

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