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VLC now available for iPhone, iPod touch
Last month, VLC made the jump from desktop to iPad -- and now the app has gone universal. iPhone and iPod touch users can now download the popular player from the App Store.9to5 Mac has gone hands-on already, and the experience looks very smooth -- at least with their sub-5 minute test videos. We're curious to see how it handles larger files and high-def content.
We'll have our own hands-on report later in the day, but let us know your initial thoughts in the comments.
Download VLC for iPhone/iPod touch
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Subscribe to commentsbkj216Oct 25th 2010 9:00AM
I wonder if its as useless as the iPad version? Seriously, I was so disappointed in the iPad version, as it never is able to play any avi/mkv/mpeg/etc file I throw at it. And I'm mad to see that they haven't updated the engine yet to fix the various issues.
I found OPlayerHD Lite and it beats the pants off of VLC.
DaveOct 25th 2010 9:19AM
On another subject, what's with the ad that pops up when I scroll down to a certain point on the Download Squad page? It doesn't allow backing up to reload your page.
Bad design.
lovejane55Oct 25th 2010 10:58PM
I can see using this as a way to view video files I've saved to Dropbox without having to convert with iFunia video converter and sync through iTunes. Certainly a time saver. Are there other advantages I'm missing? Other than flash vids, I'm not really experiencing any situations where I can't view videos on my iPhone 3GS.
Eric MatisoffNov 2nd 2010 5:09PM
Unfortunately, you can't use Dropbox or anything like that to play with VLC. The way this app works is you have to transfer your movie files to your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch through iTunes' App File Sharing. This sucks because then all the files are taking up space on your limited flash drive. I wish we could copy and paste a URL into VLC and it then streams the video. Makes much more sense and is much more useful. Big time meh for this app