VLC for iOS

So there we are. We have come a long way. Today, it’s my pleasure to announce that VLC for iOS is back on the App Store. It’s available free of charge in any country, requires iOS 5.1 or later and runs on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. This is more than an upgrade of […]

Today, we published VLC 2.0.7. This is an important update to VLC’s 2.0 series, which improves the overall stability, fixes minor annoyances and solves certain security implications. It will be available through the internal updater on Mac OS X later today and is already live on our main website for manual downloads. The in-app announcement […]

Members of the VideoLAN team and our friends from Tomahawk will attend our favorite summer geek conference: Akademy. This year, it’s in Bilbao, Spain starting on July 13. In addition to the usual KDE conferencing and geeking, Qt Contributors Summit will take place at the same venue! We are looking forward to what’s new in […]

Today, we published VLC 2.0.6. This is an important update to VLC’s 2.0 series, which improves the overall stability, fixes minor annoyances and solves certain security implications. It will be available through the internal updater on Mac OS X later today and is already live on for manual downloads on our main website. The in-app [...]

For the second year in a row, members of the VideoLAN team will be at the Annual Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles. This year, SCALE takes place at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel from February 22 to 24. On Saturday, Feb 23, at 1:30 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of the VideoLAN organization, will [...]

The entire VLC team and most teams from further projects hosted by VideoLAN will be at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on the first weekend of February. While we won't have a booth or a dedicated dev room this year, we will be around for the ... [More] entire weekend to attend interesting talks, meet great people and enjoy one or two Belgian beers. Additionally, the president of the VideoLAN association and lead developer on VLC, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, will give at talk at the Legal Issues dev room (K.3.201) on Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL on Sunday morning. Drop by if you are around and say hello! You will recognize us by the usual cone t-shirts! Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]

The entire VLC team and most teams from further projects hosted by VideoLAN will be at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on the first weekend of February. While we won’t have a booth or a dedicated dev room this year, we will be around for the entire weekend to attend interesting talks, meet great people and [...]

Last night, we reached the goal of our fundraiser for VLC for Windows 8, RT and Phone. We are enormously proud of the result and stunned by the support of the folks who made this possible. Any further money coming in will greatly speed up the ... [More] availability of our port of VLC to Windows Phone 8, since it will allow us to parallelize the workload of the ports to Windows 8 / RT and Phone. Furthermore, we proposed a few additional features, on which we will be working full-time after the initial release is done and as long as money is left: camera input support — This allows you to record anything your connected cameras can see and to stream it live where ever you like. DLNA client and server integration Play media stored on DLNA capable servers on your Windows RT tablet or Windows Phone Stream everything VLC can play on your tablet or Windows 8 PC to your DLNA capable devices (Xbox, ...). integration with locally attached devices for media playback and synchronization Smartglass support NB: This text is an excerpt of Update #6 on kickstarter. Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]

Last night, we reached the goal of our fundraiser for VLC for Windows 8, RT and Phone. We are enormously proud of the result and stunned by the support of the folks who made this possible. Any further money coming in will greatly speed up the availability of our port of VLC to Windows Phone [...]

On Tuesday, we pushed a 2nd update on our fundraiser for VLC for Windows 8, RT and Phone. It includes a first mockup of the application interface on Windows 8. We are proud of the positive feedback and we are looking forward to yours! You can ... [More] find the update here. Furthermore, since Wednesday noon, you can find Update #3 on Kickstarter, which includes additional mockups to demonstrate our new port on Windows RT tablets. Last night, we published Update #4, which gives insights on the technical implications of our ports to Windows 8, RT and Phone. At the time of writing, 95 % of our goal were pledged thanks to almost 2,400 backers and there are 6 days to go. Thanks for all the support! Let's go on on this track! and hey, our project is featured as a Staff Pick on Kickstarter, right now! Permalink | Leave a comment  » [Less]