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Vlc ......hit the road jack.

MisterMe said:
For whatever reason, the VLC media player has been replaced by a suite of free and fee-based streaming and remote control applications. These allow the user to locate an installation of VLC (Windows or Mac) on the LAN and then to stream and view content from the located installation to the iOS device. User reviews are glowing.
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No. The original VLC link is this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id390885556?mt=8

It did NOT get replaced.
 
I got a popup that it wasn't available in the US.

I would use it if it didn't destroy syncing the ipad.
 

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I grabbbed it for the iPhone on a whimsy. Is it universal binary? I'll probably never use it anyway, as I use AirVideoto convert everything to h.264.
 
I'm not too concerned to be honest. I've tried VLC a few times but a lot of videos don't seem to play, whereas literally everything seems to play in either YXPlayer or OPlayer.
 
I've only tried a few .AVI's and they all worked. Thank god ive still got it, unless they hit the kill switch n
 
That's very crappy to pull the app, although it sounds like internal politics from the vlc desktop creators killed the app rather than apple itself.

At the end of the day it didn't work great anyway, so no huge loss to iOS users, and better programs will come along in the future.
 
WilliamG said:
Really? Cause that link doesn't work for me and I can't find it on iTunes.
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Because the app is removed.

Removed. Gone. Poof. Deleted. Thus the link no longer works.

aristobrat said:
fwiw
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When an app is removed, that's what you see.

MisterMe said:
I'm guessing that your browser is pulling that page out of your cache. The original no longer exists.
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Yup. Know that. I was responding to someone saying Apple put something else in place of the VLC page.


Richdmoore said:
That's very crappy to pull the app, although it sounds like internal politics from the vlc desktop creators killed the app rather than apple itself.

At the end of the day it didn't work great anyway, so no huge loss to iOS users, and better programs will come along in the future.
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Recent version of VLC for iOS works pretty well on iPad for the videos I tried, including movies and tv shows

Here's why it's removed:
http://obamapacman.com/2011/01/vicious-nokia-employee-gets-vlc-removed-from-apple-app-store/
 
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