Second VLC for WinRT release

3 October 2014

A new release

Now, you should see a new release of VLC for WinRT on the Windows Store: 0.1.0.

This is the second major release of this application. While still beta, it should be way more stable than the previous one.

The major changes are:

  • using libVLC 2.2.0 core,
  • redesign of the interface,
  • huge performance improvements,
  • use of Winsock for networking instead of WinRTsock,
  • use of Windows 8.1 widgets,
  • move the interface code to Universal to prepare Windows Phone 8.1 port.

To get more stability, the performance improvements and the preparation to port for WP8.1, we had to move the application to Windows 8.1-only.

Be careful, this is still not as perfect and stable as the desktop release.

ARM

While this release is still x86-only, we’ve made great advances on the ARM port. More news soon.

Design

Home

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Video

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Video playback

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Audio

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Snap

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Windows 10

Windows 10 windowed

Download

Get it on the Windows Store.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 29 May 29290, 8:00 by cshaw

    I cannot have the App read my FLAC collection. Even though the appropriate folder is in the music Library. VLC music section stays desperatly empty… I am missing something there?

  2. On 17 May 17170, 10:46 by MagicAndre1981

    the latest vlc update fixed my crashes. can you also please add .cue file support? I listen to Radio shows very often and like to see the names of all titles. I get the cues from here: http://cuenation.com/

    On the desktop, all players support it, but I haven’t found a Windows Store App Media Player which supports cues.

  3. On 5 May 5050, 5:36 by Meg

    Excellent work. Thank you. :-)

    This new WinRT port works very well on Windows 10, running on the desktop in a floating, overlapping window. I guess this version will replace the win32 version as soon as its out of beta? I can’t see why not.

  4. On 5 May 5050, 11:27 by Anonymous blog

    VLC para Windows 8.1 recibe una gran actualización

    (…) En el anuncio podemos encontrar varias imágenes de la nueva versión, entre ellas una funcionando en Windows 10. (…)

  5. On 5 May 5050, 3:46 by unihorn

    Thanks for release.

    What about a bug #11111 ( https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticke… )?

  6. On 4 May 4040, 5:56 by Anonymous blog

    VLC media player released for Windows 8.1 devices VLC Media

    (…) [Source: VLC] (…)

  7. On 4 May 4040, 6:30 by Iqbal

    Hm….. unavailable in my Store
    Something’s wrong??

  8. On 3 May 3030, 11:32 by MagicAndre1981

    the App crashes each time at start with a System.IO.FileNotFoundException:

    http://pastebin.com/a5yA4BwE

  9. On 3 May 3030, 9:57 by AJ

    I can’t seem to get this to work on my Surface Pro 3 (obviously running Windows 8.1). It automatically downloaded to my desktop running Windows 10, but I keep getting the Windows 8 version on my SP3. Any ideas what is going on?

  10. On 3 May 3030, 7:17 by Anonymous blog

    VLC 0.1.0 media player for Windows 8.1 released - Liliputing

    (…) The developers behind open source media player VLC have released a second major version of their Windows Store app. (…)

  11. On 3 May 3030, 6:23 by Anonymous blog

    VLC para Windows 8.1 recibe una gran actualización

    (…) En el anuncio podemos encontrar varias imágenes de la nueva versión, entre ellas una funcionando en Windows 10. (…)

  12. On 3 May 3030, 5:57 by Anonymous blog

    Second VLC Media Player Update Released on Windows Tablets

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  13. On 3 May 3030, 4:16 by Anonymous blog

    VLC media player released for Windows 8.1 devices -

    (…) [Source: VLC] (…)

  14. On 3 May 3030, 4:14 by Anonymous blog

    VLC media player released for Windows 8.1 devices -

    (…) [Source: VLC] (…)

  15. On 3 May 3030, 2:56 by Jaska

    Wow, this update just made this app look cool, it runs fast and im not going to use desktop VLC client anymore.

    ill use metro version right now :), also it looks cool even when resized in Windows 10.

    Good work guys!

  16. On 3 May 3030, 2:36 by Tourniquet

    Wow great finally!

    Unfortunately i’ve got a lot of artefacts with some of my mkvs / mp4 video files.

    Is this a known bug?

  17. On 3 May 3030, 1:41 by Ian Dixon

    Great work, love the UI and working great on Windows 10. I can’t wait for the RT version for my Surface

  18. On 3 May 3030, 1:24 by Anonymous blog

    VLC app for Windows 8.1 updated, ARM and Windows Phone

    (…) via (…)