Michal Ždanský Creator of the open-source project VLC, VideoLAN, today released updates to its video player for all available platforms, and what's more, the app is back on the App Store after many months. VLC disappeared from the iOS platform twice historically, the first time due to disputes in the license, and the second time for unclear reasons sometime around the release of iOS 8. However, now VLC is perhaps finally back and is celebrating its return with new features.
First of all, the application got resolution support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Furthermore, VLC on iOS can better detect attached external subtitles, Google Drive was added to the streaming sources in addition to Dropbox. The media library is now searchable, it is possible to adjust the synchronization of subtitles and audio tracks during playback, and the iPad has also gained a tabular view for media. Otherwise, the application also received other minor improvements in the user interface and fixed some errors.
More significant changes have also come to the player for Mac. At the forefront is the change in appearance, which now corresponds to the design of OS X Yosemite, changes can be seen both on the side panel of the media library and on the control buttons. Furthermore, VLC finally remembers the last position of the video being played and will allow playback from this position when interrupted. Added portrait video detection, which automatically rotates videos as needed, added a large number of uncommon codecs, and greatly improved the UltraHD video codec. Finally, an interface for downloading extensions appeared in the application. VLC has supported extensions for a long time, but it was necessary to download and install them separately, the interface for downloading them directly in the application greatly simplifies this process.
A team of volunteers has been working on the new features in this multi-platform update for over a year, and a major update called version 3.0 is planned for this year, but the president of VideoLAN did not reveal the exact release date. You can find VLC for Mac directly at player pages, the version for iPhone and iPad can then be found for free in App Store.
Unfortunately, I don't see it in the Czech appstore...
So the fix: it's already there :-)
oh that's the IOS section, I was looking for it in mac .. too bad
for Mac can be found directly on the player's website
Btw, does anyone have AC3 support working on iOS?
I don't care :(
the latest version cancels AC3 support