Posts

After a 5 month hiatus and a couple of delays in between, we are very happy to release version 2.4.1 of VLC for iOS to the general public today. Please see our press release for cross-platform information. As an introductory remark, make sure to get the legitimate version of VLC. There are a number of clones on the iOS App Store right now, which violate both our copyright and our trademarks, include advertisement and usually charge $1 to $5 per download. We sent 39 DMCA take down notices against 48 apps over the cause of the last 12 months and in the end, we always succeeded. However, this can take up to 3 months, even for seemingly obvious violations. ...

Today, we will also a major new version of VLC for Mac OS X. For cross-platform changes, please have a look at the release notes and our press release. What’s new in VLC for Mac? Support for OS X Yosemite Completely re-written web plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox is back! Improved fullscreen behavior Continue playback where you left off Improved playlist adding a file size column and an option to increase the font size In addition to iTunes, Spotify can be paused on playback start New encryption and decryption modules for SSL based on OS X’s SecureTransport library for FTP and HTTP connections. This greatly improves speed and security. A lot of improvements in VLCKit for use in third party applications, notably Switched the code base to ARC and added support for Swift projects Support for HLS and HTTPS playback on iOS Improved thumbnailing Various new APIs for playlist handling, the equalizer, thumbnailing and meta data handling We are excited about this major update of VLC for Mac and hope that you’ll like it as much as we do.

This is part of an article series covering VLC’s Objective-C framework, which we provide to allow inclusion of all its features in third party applications as well as VLC for iOS and Apple TV. Currently published: Part 1: What is VLCKit and how does it work? How to use it? Part 3: snapshots and thumbnailing Today, we will discuss meta data processing. In VLCKit, every item you play is a VLCMedia object. For typical use cases, it can be created with an NSURL or an NSString containing a path. ...

This is part of an article series covering VLC’s Objective-C framework, which we provide to allow inclusion of all its features in third party applications as well as VLC for iOS and Apple TV. Currently published: Part 2: Metadata handling. Part 3: Snapshots and thumbnailing VLCKit is a generic library for any audio or video playback needs on both Apple platforms and also supports streaming and media to file conversations on the Mac. It is open-source software licensed under the LGPLv2.1 or later, available in source code and binary form from the VideoLAN website. You can also integrate MobileVLCKit easily via CocoaPods. ...

When I started to work on VLC for iOS last summer, it quickly became apparent that it would need to support playback from local media servers announced over the UPnP protocol. I came across a Objective-C++ library named upnpx which suited my use case nicely and which included broad support for all the various UPnP dialects. Regrettably, upnpx was not maintained anymore since a few months, so I started a private fork within VLC for iOS and eventually moved on to github. Nowadays, my fork is officially endorsed by the original developer Bruno Keymolen. ...

Today, we released 2 versions of VLC media player for Mac OS X targeting different client systems. Version 2.1.4 This is a small bug fix release, which improves an important regression regarding DVD playback and improves compatibility with HUffYUV contents by upgrading the respective decoder library. Additionally, a rare issue with some specifically crafted wmv files was fixed and a misleading error message no longer appears during video playback on OS X Mavericks. Grab a copy here or trigger the internal updater if it doesn’t prompt you right away. ...

Today, we released a small update of VLC for iOS. It solves the most important regressions in last week’s 2.2 major release, but also includes a major improvement: full initial support of 64bit aka AArch64 aka arm64 on late 2013’s iPhone and iPad thanks to a close collaboration with the libav team. Additionally, we added enhanced support for a broader set of UPnP servers, notably Twonky 7, Serviio 1.4 and XMBC 12, and resolved an inconvenient memory management issue in the underlying upnp library, which lead to the weird behavior that from a full folder only a single file would actually be played over and over again. ...

Today, we published version 2.2 of VLC for iOS on the App Store. It features a re-designed interface for iOS 7, which we demonstrated in early November last year. Since then, we took the time for further improvements, polishing and most importantly adding features in addition a plain restyling. Notably, we added the following: Google Drive integration and Dropbox streaming, New multitouch gestures, Improved library for TV Shows and Audio, Better UPnP integration, with downloading support, A startup tutorial, New streaming formats and protocols supported, Rewritten WiFi upload, Improved privacy when using Passcode Lock ...

Today, we published VLC media player 2.1.1 for all major desktop operating systems. If you used VLC for Android or for iOS in the last couple of months, you already got in touch with VLC’s 2.1 code base. VLC media player 2.1 was initially published on September 26. However, we didn’t enable VLC’s internal updater since then. Why? We spent extra time on polishing the release, added support for the upcoming major video codec HEVC aka H.265 in MKV and MP4 containers as well as raw files, and lastly improved compatibility with both OS X 10.6 and 10.9. ...

Over the last weeks, I worked closely with Damien Erambert on VLC’s user interface on iOS, rethinking it for iOS 7. I would like to share a small preview today with further iterations pending. Version 2.2 of VLC for iOS will also include various new features and refinements. More on that, at a later point. Any feedback and remarks are strongly welcome.