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VLC for Windows RT Beta Released

posted by janrinok on Friday March 14 2014, @10:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the Beta-with-significant-limitations dept.

wantkitteh writes:

"VLC, the popular Swiss Army knife of media players, took one step nearer to a Windows 8 Metro release after the beta was released on the Kickstarter project page. The version currently available is for x86 processors but an ARM compiled version is expected soon for Windows Phone compatibility. It seems to be merely a matter of time before VLC provides a common user interface, media sync route and (almost) universal file and codec support to (almost) every phone and tablet currently available.

The main article is here:

From Update #19:

Today, the first Beta of VLC for WinRT is getting deployed on the store. As many of you know, the road to come to this point has been long... Very long... I've been driving or helping some ports of VLC on mobile, but this port has been the hardest, by an order of magnitude. [...] This application [...] is compiled for Intel x86 CPUs: Windows RT version will follow as soon as we are able to compile it. The ARM version will also apply to Windows Phone."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by seandiggity on Monday March 17 2014, @11:53AM

    by seandiggity (639) on Monday March 17 2014, @11:53AM (#17668) Homepage

    Microsoft's "strategy" is a moving target, except when it comes to litigation and intimidation. A rational person might say that not having a good ARM build of Windows is suicide for the OS. An MS stockholder would likely agree.

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