Ios

Today, we will release version 2.6.0 of VLC for iOS adding support for Apple Watch. With Apple Watch, you can fully control VLC on iPhone, browse the library and retrieve info about stored or playing media items. Since playback control using Apple Watch allows you to start playback while the app is in background, we took the occasion to completely rework the playback process which culminated in the introduction of a mini player. This way, you can finally browse the media library or network services without interrupting playback. ...

Today, we released version 2.5.0 of VLC for iOS with a strong focus on cloud integration. We added support for iCloud Drive, box.com and OneDrive. As part of iCloud Drive, you can have access to any cloud storage enabled app on iOS 8 and later. For box.com and OneDrive, we added native support, which allows us direct streaming from the cloud without having the user download a media first. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.

About 8 weeks passed since the initial re-release of VLC for iOS based upon its entirely re-written code base. Its success outperformed our expectations with more than 2.5 million downloads during the first week. Wow! For the first major update, we listed carefully to the feedback received on the App Stores and through others channels. It adds the following features and improvements: Improved overall stability Newly implemented menu and application flow Added support for subtitles in non-western languages Improved Subtitles support with options to choose font, size, and color Add basic UPNP discovery and streaming for HTTP servers Add FTP server discovery, streaming and downloading Add Bonjour announcements for the WiFi Uploader’s website Add playback of audio-only media Improved VoiceOver and accessibility support Added Deinterlace option (off by default) Device no longer goes to sleep during media downloads Improved video output on external screens Improved Passcode Lock behavior Minor usability improvements New translations to Bosnian, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Marathi, Portuguese, Slovenian Additionally, we took the time finish a complete walkthrough of the app to discover what’s actually included and to answer most questions. ...

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 the initial version: it’s a full re-write. From the ground-up. Relying on the power of MobileVLCKit and its underlying libvlc, we started with modern video and audio output modules offering faster drawing, full support for 10bit H264 encodings, retina displays and lower latency. ...