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VLC Reaches 2.1

Posted by timothy on from the amazing-software-to-be-grateful-for dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC. The popular video player app also features support for 4K video as well as a partial Windows 8 and WinRT port for all those folks out there who don't know what else to do with their Surface RT."

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  1. First impressions by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I installed it last night and really the only thing I can say about it so far is that it seems to work the same as I'm used to. That is high praise for a new release with many new features, I think. We'll see what happens when I try to play more exotic files with multiple languages and subtitles, but so far so good.

    What is really exciting to me is the claimed support for mobile platforms. That kind of support for video is something I've really missed on Android.

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    1. Re:First impressions by Richard24 · · Score: 4, Informative

      FYI, there's a pretty good free video player for android that supports quite a bit of codecs and such. I'm not sure what you're specifically looking for. It also supports natively browsing/playing from smb shares. I also like they way they created finger swipe controls on the playing video for volume, brightness, and ff/rev. After I used it, I really miss it when I play video in Netflix or somewhere else. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.free&hl=en

    2. Re:First impressions by SMOKEING · · Score: 5, Informative

      BSPlayer shows ads. IIRC, VLC has none.