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VLC on Android?

VLC on Android?

Posted Mar 1, 2012 8:30 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: VLC 2.0 released by jensend
Parent article: VLC 2.0 released

Is it really? I searched for VLC and found a lot of things calling themselves VLC but I have no idea of their provenance. The official VLC webpage (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html) just tells me it's in development and offers no pointers to the development release.


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VLC on Android?

Posted Mar 5, 2012 16:57 UTC (Mon) by jensend (guest, #1385) [Link]

You're right, and I hadn't looked closely enough. There are VLC-based apps available on Android Market (which helps address jmm82's question about license compatibility) but none of them are official; looks like the most functional ones are still somewhat buggy and are based on VLC 1.1.x.

The first unofficial public builds of the soon-to-be-official 2.0-based Android version were posted on the 3rd of March.

VLC on Android?

Posted Mar 6, 2012 8:12 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

Any pointers? The front page still points to a work in progress message.

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