First achievement unlocked!

11 March 2014

Features

This application, version 0.2.0, is a BETA stage of the port of libVLC on WinRT. WinRT is the runtime of Windows 8/8.1 Metro/ModernUI, Windows Phone 8 and Xbox 1.

As this is a beta, some features are still not perfectly stable, but we are working on that. We thought we should share it with the users, so that people could test and help us.

This application:

  • works on Windows 8.0 and 8.1: too many people are still on 8.0, so we had to use that. This decreases the stability of the application, though…
  • is compiled for Intel x86 CPUs: Windows RT version will follow as soon as we are able to compile it. ARM version will also apply to Windows Phone.
  • plays all video and audio formats of VLC, including MKV, Ogg and Mov files or FLAC and MPC;
  • supports the same codecs as the VLC application for desktop, from MPEG-1 to H.265, through WMV3 and VC-1;
  • supports multiple-audio tracks selection;
  • supports embedded subtitles;
  • supports Background Audio playback;
  • features a easy-to-navigate but complete UI, notably for audio browsing;
  • supports Live Tiles!
  • supports removable storage and DLNA servers.

However, there are a few limitations:

  • This app is currently slow, and is slower than VLC for desktop for video decoding and has no hardware acceleration;
  • Subtitles support is not very good yet, and notably it only supports embedded subtitles; this is our major point of focus for now.
  • Audio does not seem to work in all configurations;
  • Playlists and streams are not supported in the UI (they are present in the core)
  • It’s clearly not as stable as it should be.

We are working on all those points, but notably on subtitles and audio quality and stability. Since we now have a release, it will be easier to do releases quite often, as soon as we can.

We also have longer terms goal to work on, and we’ll share them when we know more :)

We hope you like this application, and if you don’t, we’ll fix that soon :) Entry Point VideoPlayer.jpg Main Page Video Pane Music Pane Music Playback Artiste Page Removable Storage Search

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 22 May 22220, 6:36 by Pax

    Metro UI se fait descendre par tout le monde, il n’empêche, il y a du potentiel là-dessous ! Votre version semble de toute beauté. Perso, je suis sous OSX, mais je pense bientôt investir dans un HTPC/gaming, et le “rêve” serait de pouvoir piloter le tout avec un pad sans fil, très probablement celui de PS4, dont des drivers très complets viennent de sortir ici (http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-… choisir DS4Tool 1.2.2.zip ou plus récent, en bas du 1er post).

    Ce qui serait super, serait d’avoir une interface VLC qui “suit” les mouvement du curseur, au lieu de devoir “pousser” l’écran avec le curseur pour avancer. (Je dis peut-être des grosses bêtises, mais c’était comme ça sur le Win8 avec lequel j’ai un peu fait joujou)
    Aussi, ce qui rendrait les choses encore plus belles, serait de pouvoir utiliser 100% VLC (réglages complexes à part) juste avec un pad en mode Metro UI. Le D-pad pour seul déplacement dans les menus, X pour oui, O pour back (ou A et B si vous êtes sur un pad xbox). En lecture, les grosses gâchettes (L2/R2) pour » et «, et L1/R1 pour >| et |<. Carré pour STOP, Triangle pour les choix de piste audio/sous titres, O pour mettre/quitter le plein écran (ce qui laisserait imaginer une sorte de mode PiP, genre on quitte le plein écran, on revient à la grille et on peut gérer la liste de lecture pour mieux revenir en plein écran) et X pour play/pause.

    Voilà, j’ai fini ma liste au père noël :) C’est juste que XMBC et Cie c’est sympa mais parfois un peu lourd. Imaginez ce VLC, aussi réactif que les menus de la PS3 par ex, ça serait une petite tuerie. Bravo et bon courage à la team VLC, vous assurez depuis de nombreuses années, n’arrêtez jamais.

  2. On 17 May 17170, 10:27 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player for Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI is Now

    (…) Screenshot courtesy of the VideoLAN Blog. (…)

  3. On 16 May 16160, 3:16 by Anonymous blog

    Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Second build submitted to the store ‹

    (…) After the first beta release a couple of days ago, a second build fixing the most important crashes has been submitted to the store, for certification. (…)

  4. On 16 May 16160, 7:31 by Anonymous blog

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  5. On 15 May 15150, 9:43 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Player App Finally Arrives to Windows 8 | M Tech Zone

    (…) According to the developers of videoLAN the beta version of VLC Windows 8 still have some limitations, as Jean Baptiste Kempf president of videoLAN said on his personal blog post “As this is a beta, (…)

  6. On 15 May 15150, 9:42 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Player App Finally Arrives to Windows 8 | M Tech Zone

    (…) According to the developers of videoLAN the beta version of VLC Windows 8 still have some limitations, as Jean Baptiste Kempf president of videoLAN said on his personal blog post “As this is a beta, (…)

  7. On 15 May 15150, 9:34 by Anonymous blog

    VLC dla Windows 8 już jest | Nowe Technologie, Ciekawostki,

    (…) Twórca aplikacji na swoim blogu wspomniał także, że VLC działa zarówno na Windows 8, jak i Windows 8.1. Użytkownicy, którzy nie zaktualizowali swojego systemu, mogą zatem bezproblemowo korzystać z (…)

  8. On 15 May 15150, 1:38 by Anonymous blog

    VLC app for Windows 8 planned release Monday, March 10 -

    (…) I think people need to realize and keep in mind that VLC for Windows 8 is still in Beta This is an initial release. I will agree that after a year of Dev, one would expect a much more polished (…)

  9. On 14 May 14140, 8:47 by sehar fatima

    waoo, it’s really a great news after such a long time. no doubt it took more than we were expecting but i’m happy it’s finally around. nice job but please don’t take long time again to roll it’s new version which come flawless, and a perfect and complete app. :) congrats on the release

  10. On 14 May 14140, 5:31 by Anonymous blog

    VLC já está disponível para Windows 8

    (…) O famoso reprodutor de vídeos VLC, presente em milhares de computadores do mundo inteiro e compatível com todos os formatos conhecidos, lança agora sua versão para Windows 8, tal como anunciam no blog (…)

  11. On 14 May 14140, 4:34 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player for Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI is Now

    (…) Screenshot courtesy of the VideoLAN Blog. (…)

  12. On 14 May 14140, 1:49 by Anonymous blog

    ItVoice | Online IT Magazine India » VLC beta for Windows 8

    (…) Since the app is in beta mode, the VideoLAN team has noted that there might be a few bugs and kinks to be worked out and there are quite a few, such as no hardware acceleration support – (…)

  13. On 14 May 14140, 12:06 by Anonymous blog

    VLC beta for Windows 8 now available for download via

    (…) Since the app is in beta mode, the VideoLAN team has noted that there might be a few bugs and kinks to be worked out and there are quite a few, such as no hardware acceleration support – (…)

  14. On 14 May 14140, 11:59 by Aeyoun

    Congratulations!

    One point I’d love to see improved: the all-orange start-up screen is a bit … extreme. I know its your color and all of that, but it is very bright and immediately jumps up and attacks the user when they launch the player. You think you could tone it down just a little?

    Thanks for the effort and keep up the great work!

  15. On 14 May 14140, 9:52 by Anonymous blog

    VLC for Windows 8 Beta launches, early promise undermined by

    (…) Part of these fortitude issues are caused by a need to make a app backwards-compatible with Windows 8.0, something that clearly frustrates developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf. (…)

  16. On 14 May 14140, 8:04 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8

    (…) SmartAboutThings writes “After a long journey of more than one year, which included even a successfully ended Kickstarter campaign, the VLC app for Windows 8 is officially here. VLC for (…)

  17. On 14 May 14140, 7:26 by wiesi

    On a german Windows 8.1 32bit (Baytrail Tablet) it crashes instantly after the splashscreen (You see the UI for 1 second, ans it closes to the Startmenü)

  18. On 14 May 14140, 12:20 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player for Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI is Now

    (…) Screenshot courtesy of the VideoLAN Blog. (…)

  19. On 14 May 14140, 12:17 by Anonymous blog

    VLC ya está disponible para Windows 8 | Blog actuales.es

    (…) El famoso reproductor de vídeos VLC, presente en millones de ordenadores de todo el mundo y compatible con todos los formatos conocidos, lanza ahora su versión para Windows 8, (…)

  20. On 14 May 14140, 12:13 by Anonymous blog

    VLC beta for Windows 8 now available for download via

    (…) Since the app is in beta mode, the VideoLAN team (…)

  21. On 13 May 13130, 11:58 by Anonymous blog

    VLC app for Windows 8 arrives in beta, but no support for

    (…) The app will play back a range of video and audio formats including MKV, Ogg, MOV, FLAC and MPC, in addition to all of the codecs supported in the regular desktop app, including MPEG-1, H.265, WMV3 (…)

  22. On 13 May 13130, 11:38 by Jean-Baptiste Kempf

    @DanglingPointer: of course, patches are very welcome!

  23. On 13 May 13130, 11:17 by DanglingPointer

    @Jean-Baptiste Kempf, thanks for curing my curiosity! 8-)

    A quick note: please add a little left margin on Media Server view, when there is no element.

    OAN, are you accepting pull-requests?

    @Xor, please do you research. VLC is not only “yet another app”, Its an open source library that developers can consume in their apps.

  24. On 13 May 13130, 10:39 by Anonymous blog

    VLC nog niet beschikbaar voor Windows RT | Windows Centrale

    (…) Na een veel te lange certificatieperiode is de app van VideoLAN eindelijk gereleased op de Windows 8 store. Wat nu blijkt is dat de app nog niet op Windows RT verkrijgbaar is. Voorlopig wordt enkel de (…)

  25. On 13 May 13130, 9:19 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player for Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI is Now

    (…) Screenshot courtesy of the VideoLAN Blog. (…)

  26. On 13 May 13130, 9:19 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player for Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI is Now

    (…) Screenshot courtesy of the VideoLAN Blog. (…)

  27. On 13 May 13130, 9:05 by Anonymous blog

    VLC Media Player für Modern-UI von Windows 8 als Beta

    (…) VideoLAN-Entwickler Jean-Baptiste Kempf weist in einem Blogeintrag jedoch ausdrücklich darauf hin, dass die aktuelle Version 0.2.0 noch nicht stabil läuft und noch einiges an Arbeit erfordert. Bisher (…)

  28. On 13 May 13130, 9:00 by Anonymous blog

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  29. On 13 May 13130, 7:32 by Anonymous blog

    VLC disponible en bêta public sur Windows 8 sujet | usa5

    (…) Source : Releases Notes (…)

  30. On 13 May 13130, 6:16 by Cehona

    Download.:
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  31. On 13 May 13130, 5:52 by Anonymous blog

    VLC for Windows 8 Beta launched, early promise undermined by

    (…) Part of these stability issues are caused by the need to make the app backwards-compatible with Windows 8.0, something that clearly frustrates developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf. (…)

  32. On 13 May 13130, 5:21 by Jean-Baptiste Kempf

    @Xor: You’re just a pathetic troll. The project was not to create a media player for WinRT, but to port VLC so that it is extensible and evolving with the other releases of VLC AND Open Source.However, please boycott VLC, we are not interested in people like you insulting developers.

  33. On 13 May 13130, 4:53 by Anonymous blog

    VLC beta for Windows 8 now available for download via

    (…) Since the app is in beta mode, the VideoLAN team has noted that there might be a few bugs and kinks to be worked out (and there are quite a few, such as no hardware acceleration support – (…)

  34. On 13 May 13130, 4:05 by Anonymous blog

    VLC beta for Windows 8 now available for download via

    (…) Since the app is in beta mode, the VideoLAN team has noted that there might be a few bugs and kinks to be worked out (and there are quite a few, such as no hardware acceleration support – (…)

  35. On 13 May 13130, 3:35 by Xor

    Is it a killing joke? This release CAN’T be serious, can it?

    Seriously, more than a year to get to this shameful result. Sorry to say that this is pathetic to such an extent… you can’t even imagine. Many were waiting for it, many will end extremely disappointed.

    This whole farcical tragic-comedy is the evidence that you can’t develop software anymore.

    Please, please… do not say you needed to raise funds to release such a sh*t. In 2013/2014, there’s no need for much money to develop a reliable and nice piece of audio/video playing software, all the more in a 12-18 months time. Unknown amateurs do it almost every week with more or less success (browse the Windows Store to find it by yourself). You CAN’T anymore.

    This is as pathetic as can be, you treat users with such contempt that one should boycott VLC straight away. I’ll advertize my relatives that way since, as native Windows 8.x apps, there are much better alternatives in 2013/2014.

    Too bad the waste of time…

  36. On 13 May 13130, 3:29 by Anonymous blog

    VLC สำหรับ Windows 8 มาแล้ว Windows RT และ Windows Phone

    (…) ที่มา - jbkempf (…)

  37. On 13 May 13130, 3:29 by Anonymous blog

    VLC สำหรับ Windows 8 มาแล้ว Windows RT และ Windows Phone

    (…) ที่มา - jbkempf (…)

  38. On 13 May 13130, 2:00 by Anonymous blog

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  39. On 13 May 13130, 1:34 by Anonymous blog

    VLC per Windows 8.1 disponibile in versione beta |

    (…) Via | Jean-Baptiste Kempf (…)

  40. On 13 May 13130, 12:07 by Anonymous blog

    VLC-Beta für Windows 8 veröffentlicht - ComputerBase

    (…) Da es sich allerdings noch um eine Testversion handelt, kann es – wie Jean-Baptiste Kempf, einer der führenden Köpfe hinter dem Projekt, im eigenen Blog erklärt – noch zu Problemen bezüglich der (…)

  41. On 13 May 13130, 12:06 by Anonymous blog

    VLC dla Windows 8 już dostępny | Windows7.pl

    (…) Twórca aplikacji na swoim blogu wspomniał także, że VLC działa zarówno na Windows 8, jak i Windows 8.1. Użytkownicy, którzy nie zaktualizowali swojego systemu, mogą zatem bezproblemowo korzystać z (…)

  42. On 13 May 13130, 11:00 by Jean-Baptiste Kempf

    @DanglingPointer: we are a VS2012 solution, this is why.

    @KIKOS: désolé, c’était vraiment pas péjoratif :)

  43. On 13 May 13130, 10:14 by Anonymous blog

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  44. On 13 May 13130, 10:13 by Anonymous blog

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  45. On 13 May 13130, 10:00 by Anonymous blog

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  46. On 13 May 13130, 9:52 by Anonymous blog

    VLC for Windows 8: First Public Beta is here | TheAdopter

    (…) The release of the first public beta of the VLC (VideoLan) app for Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 was already to expect. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the main developers behind the popular media player VLC, (…)

  47. On 13 May 13130, 8:39 by KIKOS

    Me plaindre ?? Est-ce humouristique ? (manque t’il un smiley ?)
    J’ai juste fait un retour. Désolé si c’est pas le bon endroit (mais je demande où remonter officiellement les bugs dans le message).

    Sinon : “un souci par bug” = “Un ticket par bug” non ? (Bon à 00:01 on a pu les idées claires…)

    ; )

  48. On 13 May 13130, 6:31 by Anonymous blog

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  49. On 13 May 13130, 6:11 by Anonymous blog

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  50. On 13 May 13130, 6:08 by Anonymous blog

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  51. On 13 May 13130, 6:00 by Anonymous blog

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  52. On 13 May 13130, 5:34 by Anonymous blog

    VLC for Windows 8 beta app now available, coming soon to

    (…) VIA : VLC DEVELOPER BLOG (…)

  53. On 13 May 13130, 5:33 by Anonymous blog

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  54. On 13 May 13130, 5:23 by Anonymous blog

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  55. On 13 May 13130, 5:22 by Anonymous blog

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  56. On 13 May 13130, 5:19 by Anonymous blog

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  57. On 13 May 13130, 4:55 by DanglingPointer

    Hello Jean.

    Thanks for the updates and all the super hard work.

    One thing is bothering me though; whey do you need to have C99’s inttypes.h, when VS2013 has first-class C99 support (except for tgmath and few other headers). Nonetheless, inttypes.h is available OOTB. See:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/arch…

  58. On 13 May 13130, 4:45 by Geekiest.Net

    VLC for Windows 8 released at the Windows Store

    VLC for Windows 8 released at the Windows Store…

  59. On 13 May 13130, 4:44 by Geekiest.Net

    VLC for Windows 8 released at the Windows Store

    VLC for Windows 8 released at the Windows Store…

  60. On 13 May 13130, 3:24 by Anonymous blog

    VLC is now available in Windows store – Minionvilla

    (…) The famous video player VLC, present in millions of computers around the world and supports all popular formats, is launching its version for Windows 8, as announced on the official blog . (…)

  61. On 13 May 13130, 3:22 by Anonymous blog

    VLC is now available in Windows store – Minionvilla

    (…) The famous video player VLC, present in millions of computers around the world and supports all popular formats, is launching its version for Windows 8, as announced on the official blog . (…)

  62. On 13 May 13130, 3:06 by Anonymous blog

    VLC ya está disponible para Windows 8 | | Blog Desktop

    (…) El famoso reproductor de vídeos VLC, presente en millones de ordenadores de todo el mundo y compatible con todos los formatos conocidos, lanza ahora su versión para Windows 8, tal y como anuncian en (…)

  63. On 13 May 13130, 2:46 by Anonymous blog

    VLC para Windows 8.1 já está disponível na loja do Windows

    (…) Fonte: The Verge via VLC | Imagem: Reprodução/VLC (…)

  64. On 13 May 13130, 2:01 by Anonymous blog

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    (…) Más información: VLC (…)

  65. On 13 May 13130, 1:01 by Anonymous blog

    VLC ya está disponible para Windows 8

    (…) El famoso reproductor de vídeos VLC, presente en millones de ordenadores de todo el mundo y compatible con todos los formatos conocidos, lanza ahora su versión para Windows 8, tal y como anuncian en (…)

  66. On 13 May 13130, 12:31 by obi

    Je voudrais tout d’abord remercier toute l’équipe de VLC.
    Félicitations pour votre peine qui a eté finalement récompensée.

    Cependant, je voudrais vous prier de prendre en compte la nécessité de l’ application VLC pour le système Windows Phone 8/8.1 .

    Encore une fois, merci pour tout.

  67. On 13 May 13130, 12:01 by Jean-Baptiste Kempf

    @KIKOS: merci de remplir les bugs sur https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ . Un souci par bug, merci.

    @John Galt: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10935

    @loveVLC: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10935

    @jessenic: we probably will support 8.1 only on WP.

  68. On 12 May 12120, 11:22 by KIKOS

    Nice job !

    Pas mal du tout pour une beta.
    Interface rapide et clean.

    A part un petit plantage au premier lancement, pas de soucis.

    J’ai lu quelques mkv depuis mon NAS => RAS
    Ajouté un sous titre => RAS
    Avance / changement de position à travers le réseau => RAS

    A voir sur le long terme mais c’est déjà nickel en tactile.

    Un petit bug :

    1°) Lancer une video
    2°) aller à une position donnée (ex: 45 min)
    3°) revenir un menu par le bouton retour (fleche arriere)
    4°) Lancer une autre vidéo
    => La nouvelle vidéo démarre à 45 minutes.

    Au chapitre des suggestions, il serait sympa de pouvoir définir les répertoires vidéo et musique (utilisation NAS).

    Questions :

    • Il y a t’il une page dédiée pour les retours de bugs et suggestions ?

    Merci pour le boulot, ne vous laissez pas découragé par les pleureurs et autres trolls.

    Moi en tout cas je regrette pas d’avoir contribué d’être un backer sur ce projet.

    A+

  69. On 12 May 12120, 11:15 by John Galt

    Crashes on startup.

    Intel atom (prev Gen) x64 with 2 GB ram.

    HD home run prime on the network. Crashes iPad and android app when trying to view with dlna in vlc, so may be related.

  70. On 12 May 12120, 11:05 by loveVLC

    Error on lunch “The remote procedure call failed”.
    W8.1x64
    no third party codecs installed

    conf
    I7 3770k
    HD7970

  71. On 12 May 12120, 11:02 by Anonymous blog

    VLC app for Windows 8 arrives in beta, but no support for

    (…) The app will play back a range of video and audio formats including MKV, Ogg, MOV, FLAC and MPC, in addition to all of the codecs supported in the regular desktop app, including MPEG-1, H.265, WMV3 (…)

  72. On 12 May 12120, 10:48 by Tourniquet

    It’s really great to finally see and use this App! It’s been a very long time.
    It really amazing. This will definitely be the best media player for windows!

    One thing i noticed right away, when i browse my video folder, it’s not possible to select *.m4v files. I can just see *.mkv’s

  73. On 12 May 12120, 10:22 by Anonymous blog

    Erste öffentliche Beta des VLC Media Players für die Modern

    (…) Heute ist es geschafft und die erste öffentliche Betaversion des VLC Media Players für Windows 8 und Windows 8.1 steht im Windows Store zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Die jetzige Version unterstützt (…)

  74. On 12 May 12120, 10:19 by Anonymous blog

    The first beta of VLC for Windows 8.1 hits the store (Intel

    (…)

  75. On 12 May 12120, 10:10 by Alan

    Congrats on completing the port
    Can you post the link of the app in the store?

  76. On 12 May 12120, 10:00 by jessenic

    I put this on Kickstarter, but might as well put this here too: For the Windows Phone version please target Windows Phone 8.1! It has way better SD Card support and supports the same WinRT XAML runtime found in Windows 8 and RT. WP8 only supports Silverlight.