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VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

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Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#11

Post by JohnTHaller »

mehrzad wrote: post #7
antr wrote: post #2

I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS. The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my fac…

>it's been my default video app since I can remember. Curious as to what you think about MPlayer, MPC-HC, or mpv, which have mostly taken the crown in nerd circles as being the de facto video players.

MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableApps.com alongside each other and VLC's downloads blow the other two away.

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#12

Post by daed »

antr wrote: post #2

I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS. The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my fac…

Assuming it's like the last version on iOS (which I was lucky enough to download before it got yanked) you can just plug in your device and throw whatever videos you want into VLC's documents folder. Transfers really quickly over USB.

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#13

Post by captiva12 »

Instead of downloading media to your iPhone you can use Tonido iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tonido-file-access-music-vid...) app to play/stream pretty much all the video formats directly from your PC, Mac or Linux (or) you can use the app to download the media and play with VLC.

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#14

Post by jbk »

cube13 wrote: post #10
jbk wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See my blogposts on LGPL relicensing of VLC engine http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/I-did-it Note that the relicensing was not done for the iOS port. And the app above the VLC engine is dual licensed GPLv2/MPLv2

Thanks. I wasn't aware that the core engine and modules have been re-licensed as LGPL.

This is because VLC 2.1.0 is now only in Beta :)

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#15

Post by Enquiry »

mehrzad wrote: post #7
antr wrote: post #2

I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS. The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my fac…

>it's been my default video app since I can remember. Curious as to what you think about MPlayer, MPC-HC, or mpv, which have mostly taken the crown in nerd circles as being the de facto video players.

The only "nerd circle" I know that is fixated on MPC are otakus, for no meaningful reasons except to make themselves feel superior. (Especially subbing groups)

I use FooBar2K for audio and VLC for video.

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#17

Post by Osmium »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #11
mehrzad wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>it's been my default video app since I can remember. Curious as to what you think about MPlayer, MPC-HC, or mpv, which have mostly taken the crown in nerd circles as being the de facto video players.

MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableA…

There are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org

There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#19

Post by jbk »

kzahel wrote: post #18

I was trying to install VLC on my android nexus 4 the other day and apparently it's not in the Play store? I ended up installing "Joe VLC" instead. I wonder if there will be an official android release?

We are not happy yet on the quality of VLC for Android, so it is not out of beta.

However, you can try yourself here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/armv7-android/VLC-debug-...

Re: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

#20

Post by Florin_Andrei »

antr wrote: post #2

I'm a big fan of VLC, it's been my default video app since I can remember. Can't wait to see it again on iOS. The "big" feature I would like to see is some kind of "super-easy" drag and drop feature where I could easily send video files to my iPad/iPhone without doing the whole Browser->IP:Port->Choose file, etc. A "video file right click -> VLC -> Send file to iPad (upload in background)" would put a smile on my fac…

I kept the old version on my iPhone ever since it got pulled from the store. Made sure to not delete it. :)

> native Dropbox integration

> background audio playback

This is awesome.

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