Back in October of 2010, iOS developer Applidium brought VideoLAN’s. Unfortunately, the universal app had a short shelf life, at the request of VideoLAN a few months later. The issue revolved around VLC’s General Public License (GPL) licensing agreement.
Because VLC is open source software, it was technically illegal for Applidium to sell a port in Apple’s DRM-restricted App Store. Fast forward more than a year later, and a change in VideoLAN’s licensing means that VLC can be legally brought back to the App Store in all of its glory. The VideoLAN group has switched to the Lesser General Public License (LGPL), meaning developers are now free to distribute the software in a closed ecosystem like the iOS App Store. VideoLAN president Jeann-Baptiste Kempf told French publication PCINpact that the new license means we could see an app “similar to VLC” in the App Store now. VLC has long been considered the swiss army knife of video players.
VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. / Rip DVDs with VLC on Your Mac. Rip DVDs with VLC on Your Mac. Handbrake is an excellent alternative app for ripping even copy protected DVDs. But if you need something quick you can do with software you already have, you can rip DVDs with VLC. You can use the above guide to create a digital file from any standard DVDs you might have.
Is great for playing all kinds of formats that are unsupported by standard players like QuickTime. There’s also the ability to live convert a video as you watch in the rare case that VLC doesn’t already support a random format. I downloaded VLC in the App Store before it was pulled, and I still use it every now and then to play files I would have to otherwise convert for Apple’s QuickTime-based Video app. Here’s to hoping we see VLC back in the App Store soon!
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