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Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore

Posted by timothy on from the don't-want-your-kind-'round-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has removed VLC media player from the App Store, putting an end to the controversy on the license (in)compatibilities. Indeed, the iTunes page for VLC media player stopped working. VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont notes that he is 'not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone.'"

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  1. Re:Won't be missed by CheerfulMacFanboy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm pretty sure it takes an addon for me to get Flash working in my Firefox browser. Mozilla doesn't enable it. The use of H.264, however, would be embedded within Mozilla's code and would require Mozilla to support / license accordingly. I understand that these things are probably difficult to understand as you're still having trouble with what a "grownup" is.

    I'm pretty certain that Apple doesn't support Ogg Theora in Safari - yet I'm able to play HTML5 embedded video encoded with Theora. Maybe Safari is the better browser?

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