VLC Media Player on iPhone, iPod Touch

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Zodttd announced (http://www.zodttd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1994) that he has ported the popular VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) media-playing software over to the iPhone and iPod Touch. What is vlc4iphone capable of? At the moment it may be limited by only a small handfull of decoders, but soon that list will grow! It currently allows you to drag and drop the following popular media formats onto your iPhone/iPod Touch for playback: MPEG / MPG,AVI,MP3.
The author is currently researching adding support for VCD, DivX, WMA and WMV, with support for FLAC and OGG formats coming "soon". The application is currently under beta testing but a public release is planned soon. The application requires a jailbroken phone for installation.

VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is a popular cross-platform media player that supports a large list (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html) of audio and video formats.

Article Link (http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/06/04/vlc-media-player-on-iphone-ipod-touch/)

[italiano40]

I can't wait to get my hands on this, i love VLC
keep the homebrew coming

[mmendoza27]

This is EXACTLY, EXACTLY why I am excited for the SDK. This is going to be amazing, I love VLC and couldn't live without it on a Mac.

[wakerider017]

Um, I don't think Apple will be to thrilled about WMA support...

Think this will ever find itself on a 'non-jailbroken' iPod/iPhone?

[polishmacuser]

god i just want to have firmware 2.0 unlocked :D but vlc is just another great awesome thing for the iphone :D no more converting woo hoo hope it works with safari and all that

[iWizzard]

I would like this to be an back end to the regular built in player. I would like to be able to play all formats via the regular interface.

Ps I also going to need 128GB flash. :)

[MacTheSpoon]

I hope this is released through the app store. This would be huge.

[Xenn0X]

damn xvid support would be huge. ssh the video and play without converting.:apple:

[Dagless]

I would love this for video streaming. Keep my iMac on at home, watch my films on my iPhone via 3G. I'd like that.

[AndyClarke]

Sounds interesting but I would not have much use for this to be honest.

[The Phazer]

Does the SDK allow write access to the main media memory in the first place? As in, would you be able to sync the files without jailbreaking in the first place since iTunes won't let you?

Without that, there's not much point being in the app store. Though a streaming realplayer would be real nice…

Phazer

[iCantwait]

.avi would = yay

[fastbite]

Yes please! I'm fed up of transcoding flicks.

[jay794]

This is awesome, does it mean we can use it online? like watch Youtube videos without using the iPhone program?

[Compile 'em all]

oh yeah!

[Compile 'em all]

I would love this for video streaming. Keep my iMac on at home, watch my films on my iPhone via 3G. I'd like that.

You can already do that now with orb (http://www.orb.com/iphone_how).

[Shasterball]

This is sweet. I've been using VLC for 4 years now -- good to see it will be mobile soon.

[Yvan256]

You guys should rip directly into H.264/AAC instead of DivX, no more conversion required... ;) ;)

[BetaBoy]

Not to pimp (as I am a VLC user as well)... but CorePlayer Mobile for the iPhone will be available on the AppStore soon after its launched. See the video demo from back in Feb. here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-Vp3IVjbg

It will support:

Audio: MP3, MP2, WMA, AAC, MKA, Midi, WAV, APE, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM

Video: H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPEG, MSVIDEO1

Containers: Flash/FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS, M2TS, TS, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV

Streaming: HTTP, UDP, UDP Unicast, RDP, RTP. RTSP, RTCP (keep alive), ASX, ASF, Multicast, HTTP Tunneling


Also we are adding an embedded RSS Reader and and Twitter Component for the iPhone launch. The staff here at CoreCodec will be at WWDC doing demos... if anyone wants to get together for us to show it... just send me a PM.

[bytethese]

You can already do that now with orb (http://www.orb.com/iphone_how).

Not on a Mac you can't without virtualization. Bah! :P

[unsunder]

Won't this take a serious toll on the battery since it's not being hardware decoded?

[sebastianlewis]

Um, I don't think Apple will be to thrilled about WMA support...

Think this will ever find itself on a 'non-jailbroken' iPod/iPhone?

Apple would have no reason to disallow this unless they wanted to be jerks and lock people into using MobileTunes instead. :eek:

There is one good reason for not doing this and that's the fact that there's no hardware decoding for anything besides H.264 and it'd probably lead to reduced battery life, but that should be the end user's decision, not Apple's.

Sebastian

[happydude]

this would be fantastic, but as others have said, i kinda doubt it'll make its way onto the iphone in a legit way without jailbreaking . . .

[ZiggyPastorius]

This is good news. I've been wanting to watch Swap.avi on my iPod touch for a while now...

(P.S. that joke isn't against forum rules, is it?)

[Ryon]

I imagine this will suck batteries like there's no tomorrow (and possibly make the device rather warm?), but it's definitely great for people who want the option of using other codecs. Thumbs up.

Has anyone heard about Perian being developed for the iPhone/touch?

[TuckBodi]

Not to pimp (as I am a VLC user as well)... but CorePlayer Mobile for the iPhone will be available on the AppStore soon after its launched. See the video demo from back in Feb. here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-Vp3IVjbg

It will support:

Audio: MP3, MP2, WMA, AAC, MKA, Midi, WAV, APE, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM

Video: H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPEG, MSVIDEO1

Containers: Flash/FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS, M2TS, TS, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV

Streaming: HTTP, UDP, UDP Unicast, RDP, RTP. RTSP, RTCP (keep alive), ASX, ASF, Multicast, HTTP Tunneling


Also we are adding an embedded RSS Reader and and Twitter Component for the iPhone launch. The staff here at CoreCodec will be at WWDC doing demos... if anyone wants to get together for us to show it... just send me a PM.

Ummm, what's the price comparison of CorePlayer versus VLC? :eek:

[DiamondMac]

I can't wait to get my hands on this, i love VLC
keep the homebrew coming

Amen. I can't wait to be able to use this for the iPhone as many sites have these types of videos that I want to use

[Dorfdad]

You can already do that now with orb (http://www.orb.com/iphone_how).

No MAC version equals fail....

[con2mac]

with the arrival of the VLC, does this mean that iphone will play

live audio (radio) streams that usually stream through windows

media player ?

kind regards

[Billy Boo Bob]

I imagine this will suck batteries like there's no tomorrow (and possibly make the device rather warm?), but it's definitely great for people who want the option of using other codecs. Thumbs up.

Has anyone heard about Perian being developed for the iPhone/touch?

I would imagine that Perian would be about as bad as any of the others... Any format that doesn't take advantage of the built-in H264 hardware will rely on the processor a LOT more. Probably not worth letting it make lunch of your battery life.

Still, nice to know if/that it could, though. :cool:

[hinchesk]

No sign of either Coreplayer Mobile or VLC at the App store yet.

VLC still seems stuck on jailbroken devices and Coreplayer Mobile player is "coming soon" for iPhone and iPod Touch.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/05/vlc-on-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch-yep/
http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/69/

[dukebound85]

any update on this?

[Juo100]

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I would love this for video streaming. Keep my iMac on at home, watch my films on my iPhone via 3G. I'd like that.

That's exactly what I'd like to do with it.

[BetaBoy]

We are a few weeks behind as we wanted to add more features that we originally had planned. With that we are planning to submit it for the AppStore by months end (September).

[stiphone]

Great. I can watch my rmvb movies on the iPhone without converting them!! Yippeee!!!

[kannesss]

omg this will be the greatest thing ever made for an iphone. it plays almost every format. i have it for my mac and i love it more than my family.

[EB66]

i agree with kanness i love this program it is the jack of all trades

[Strongside]

VLC iphone compatible?I hope it releases asap...:D

[pmzpocket]

We are a few weeks behind as we wanted to add more features that we originally had planned. With that we are planning to submit it for the AppStore by months end (September).

Take your time, get it right, get it stable. After all, its only the single best app for Mac OSX ;)

And soon to be the single best app for the iPhone. Please say video playlist is one of these features. Oh please oh please. :D

[Jiddick ExRex]

We are a few weeks behind as we wanted to add more features that we originally had planned. With that we are planning to submit it for the AppStore by months end (September).

with apple's latest actions towards developers, I strongly doubt that your coreplayer will be released. It has too much of the same functionality of iTunes. Talk about letting competition create quality apple :rolleyes:

[TechZone]

Xvid & divx all I need .. I don't have to convert my videos yay .. :D

[yagrax]

Take your time, get it right, get it stable. After all, its only the single best app for Mac OSX ;)

And soon to be the single best app for the iPhone. Please say video playlist is one of these features. Oh please oh please. :D

I love VLC on my PC.

Just FYI: You can already do video playlists on at least 2.1 firmware.

Search macrumors for my entry containing:

'Playing Video in Portrait mode' in the

iPhone 2.1 Update, new & undocumented features/fixes screenshots (Updated constantly) thread

for more video madness...

[QueenZ]

Sounds really interesting.. :) I have always liked VLC and now when it's on iPhone .. :) Yay!

[Pared]

This was absolutely TERRIBLE.

Quite disappointed with Divx/Xvid playback.

Absolutely awful.

[Sysbase]

VLC is great! Why is there such a long wait? We need this now!http://y08x1209ftpv189.imageshacknow.info/img/1485/y08w1210rzac/w00t.gif

[Pared]

It's already available. I wish you guys would quit posting how great it is and try it out on the iPhone. It's terrible.

[notintheleast]

It's already available. I wish you guys would quit posting how great it is and try it out on the iPhone. It's terrible.

It's definitely still a work in progress.

[zen.state]

.avi would = yay

Not limited/restricted to mpeg4/h.264 is a great thing. On my C2D cpu I can encode an avi in less than half the time it take to do the same file in ipod format.

[ibodtouch]

Hope iPhone play rmvb!!!!

[WPeterson]

oh, if VLC app could be on iPhone, the media playback issue could never be an issue. i'm new here, but excited to hear about this. but where is it now?
:eek:

[zen.state]

I wonder if it gives you the ability to create vlc playlists from your ipod playlists. Or even better.. be compatible with iphone/ipod touch playlists.

[SAIRUS]

guy hate to bust you bubble, no wait I will

its very much a work in progress. I have the app and divx files are very skippy. Quality is terrible.

Still hearing the internet radios was great.