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VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter

Posted by timothy on from the consume-your-delicious-media dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Metro version of VLC, the popular free and open-source media player, is coming to Windows 8. On Sunday, the VideoLAN organization reached its funding goal on Kickstarter for its Windows 8-specific app. There are also plans to port it afterwards to Windows Phone 8. The project has now been funded by over 2,500 backers, who have pledged more than the £40,000 ($65,000) goal."

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  1. New Kickstarter Idea by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How about we start a kickstarter to not port VLC to windows phone?

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  2. Let Windows 8 Die by muncadunc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would be much happier if nobody ported their software, and Windows 8 was allowed to completely fail.

    Then Microsoft would be forced to fix the UI and bring back the start menu.

    1. Re:Let Windows 8 Die by hendridm · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Genuinely curious, as I am not an expert in these areas, but what is wrong with VirtualBox?

  3. 65K? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why, that's annual salary of an entry-to-mid level programmer. Seems like it would take a whole lot more. Sort of a strange target.

  4. How about fix VLC for ANY operating system! by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to use VLC exclusively, but then it began to choke on newer codecs and more demanding resolutions. I upgraded and the latest build was far worse (no audio half the time, problems skipping, etc) so I had to revert back to an older version. I've switched to Media Player Classic (which I used to use over 5 years ago before VLC) and am very pleased because it "simply works". So IMO, MPC has leapfrogged VLC in their back and forth development surges. The fact that the latest releases of VLC were worse leads me to believe whatever developers are now active are not doing such a good job.

    Until VLC can be made to halfway work on ANY platform, I'd be hesitant to try and push it out to Windows 8. There are fundamental problems with the low level decoding right now that need to be fixed first, before high level GUI / API / OS stuff is tweaked for a new OS.

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