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VLC Video Player Coming to iPad

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As first reported by Mac4Ever, VLC has been ported to the iPad by Applidium with the blessing of the VideoLan team. The app is currently in submission with Apple and is awaiting approval.
After several month of porting, we are proud to announce the release of VLC for the iPad! This application stands out for two reasons. First, it will be available for free on the AppStore. But that’s not all. VLC is an OpenSource project. We are currently preparing our patches for submission to the main VLC tree. And obviously, we will release our current working tree when the app will hit the AppStore. If everything goes well, VLC for the iPad should be available next week.
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VLC (Video Lan Client) is a very popular open source media player for the Mac and other platforms. One of its strengths is the ability to play a wide variety of video formats (chart) and streaming support. We should expect the iPad release as early as next week.

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This would be incredible! But with the way Apple has been moving in the last few years, I think they'll kill this app. Apple is the most NON-open company around today. I'm a fan of their products in every aspect but this one (and the lack of Blu-ray).

If I'm wrong, and Apple let's this app through, then I REALLY hope it comes out for the iPod Touch soon too!
 
My jaw dropped when I read that! This is great news and so much potential. I just hope my expectations are not too high.
 
natejohnstone@g said:
This would be incredible! But with the way Apple has been moving in the last few years, I think they'll kill this app. Apple is the most NON-open company around today. I'm a fan of their products in every aspect but this one (and the lack of Blu-ray).
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This has nothing to do with why they'd not approve this app. :rolleyes: Apple is as open as they've always been : http://opensource.apple.com/. Notice some of the iOS source is there.

If anything, they'll say it duplicates existing functionality.
 
Great news
Apple kill it. Because it do same thing as movie app from apple.
 
You have no idea how many times I've googled "Vlc for iPhone" & "Vlc for ipad" hoping to find some good news. I never thought I'd live to see this day *wipes tears*

Perfect timing too. My ipad should be here next week :D
 
Didn't they approve an app that played divx files for the iPad recently? I guess that mens this should be approved.
 
What about iphone 4? Will it be available for iphone or not? Cinexplayer is only for ipad...
 
It's probably not common knowledge - I was surprised as well- but there is already something similar to VLC in the App Store: yxplayer2.
Apple will probably allow this, but there is an important caveat, one which people seem to forget all the time...
Apple states that you can watch videos on the iPad for about 10 hours; video's which are played via hardware acceleration.
If you are going to watch DivX, XviD, MKV, whatever else, on an iOS device, the CPU of said device is going to have to handle *all* of the encoding, which is going to drain the battery like hell.
So instead of 10 hours of video watching pleasure, maybe you'll get 2 or 3.
Granted, you can fix this by using an extra battery or whatnot, but that seems suboptimal to me :)
 
Soliber said:
Apple will probably allow this, but there is an important caveat, one which people seem to forget all the time...
Apple states that you can watch videos on the iPad for about 10 hours; video's which are played via hardware acceleration.
If you are going to watch DivX, XviD, MKV, whatever else, on an iOS device, the CPU of said device is going to have to handle *all* of the encoding, which is going to drain the battery like hell.
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Are you claiming the GPU is much more power efficient than the CPU ? Because I think that's what you're claiming. As there been any tests of this ?

And seriously, what's with all the "battery is draining" posts everytime someone tries to actually do something on iOS. If you don't want your battery drained, turn off the damn thing and don't use it. I'd rather have a device that needs recharging more often but that can actually do the stuff I need it to do, than some pretty ornament that can't do squat but displays the home screen for 30 hours.
 
i would KILL for this to come out for the iPhone.

but i think there is about a 98% chance that Apple rejects it.
 
VLC is awesome because it can play files that no other player can... Here's how it goes on your Mac:

You download a file
It doesn't play with any traditional player because it's corrupt or an unusual extension
You open it with VLC
It plays fine

On the iPad however, you cannot download files, you don't have a file system, and you don't even deal with corrupt files and every movie file you upload to the device is in Apple's special format, meaning that it's playable by the built-in video player. So where does VLC come in? Who will need it?
 
How would you get video files on the iPad? In the same same way goodreader/iBooks works – through iTunes?
 
Good News. I had feedback.


YES! ;-)

Le 9 sept. 2010 à 11:19, mailer@applidium.com a écrit :

Objet : vlc iphone 4
Message :
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will the vlc be available for iphone4? Please say YES!
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