Over on MacRumors, “‘Zodttd’ announced that he has ported the popular VLC media-playing software over to the iPhone and iPod touch.”
“What is ‘vlc4iphone’ capable of? At the moment it may be limited by only a small handfull of decoders, but soon that list will grow! It currently allows you to drag and drop the following popular media formats onto your iPhone/iPod touch for playback: MPEG/MPG, AVI, MP3,” arn reports for MacRumors.
“The author is currently researching adding support for VCD, DivX, WMA and WMV, with support for FLAC and OGG formats coming “soon”. The application is currently under beta testing but a public release is planned soon,” arn reports.” The application requires a jailbroken phone for installation.”
More info and links here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
What if,
A worthless piece of crap program (was ported) to run on the world’s hottest platform (atm), and no one was there to hear it…
would it make a sound??
Can anyone here say “porn”? I knew ya could.
“Coitus?”
The Dude abides.
I wouldn’t say VLC is worthless crap, but if you have a better program in mind, I’m open to suggestions.
Not so sure that VLC – if that’s what the above post refers to – is a “worthless piece of crap”
Least not to me on a semi-ancient G4
Is free, believe 100% open, and can handle anything thrown at it
Plus, is French, oui oui
And, in a world of PC files, is nice to easily get at all the DIVX’s on UseNet and BitTorrent
But, don’t think I need it THAT much to jailbreak my iPhone, sorry
BC
Nutcracker, you’re at least living up to part of your name…the nuts part.
Ports for jailbroken phones might be questionable at best, but VLC is about as far from a “piece of crap program” as you can get.
It is one of the first programs I install on any machine–Windows, OS X or Linux–and is the closest thing to a swiss army knife for media playing as you can get.
I would love to see an iPhone-native VLC player, and would be tremendously pissed off if Apple didn’t permit one.
Windows Mobile already has Windows Media Player. It’s all you need. Suck it, MAC dorks.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@nutscracker
No crap… fairly good enough when reading few things QT doesn’t. Sorry, i love QT, but Apple has still some work to do. None is perfect, neither Apple nor ANY other.
Nutcracker’s comment is a perfect example of ignorance.
VLC is an absolute necessity to play back the numerous video formats circulating online, and with a less clunky interface that QuickTime player.
I’ve got to pile on, here. VLC has been indipensable since I first switched in ’02, and has never ignored the platform. Ever.
Whenever I switch someone, I give them a list of apps to get. VLC is always on the list.
@ Nutcracker:
Take your two Zunes, pull your shorts down, and make a nuts sandwich.
You must be a PC guy to think VLC sucks.
Now, away with you dipstick.
VLC rocks. Latest version has minor bugs though.
Man, I can’t imagine they will abandon dual and quad G5s just yet. That will severely limit their potential market.
At least it’s not Snow Bunny or Bizzarro Leopard or some such.
TGAFM may be constipated but cared enough to login, read the comment and post a carefully crafted attempt at flaming that looks like it took nearly three and a half hours to compose.
Impressive.
I prefer quicktime with Perian for those codecs that Quicktime doesn’t natively support. The only reason I use VLC is on the occasion the audio isn’t loud enough in Quicktime. VLC can amplify the sound better.
VLC opened up a world off porn to me.
ok, we have pointed out that VLC is indeed a useful program, let it go……
can we now point out that a program which requires a jail-broken phone is a little like selling stereos for only stolen cars?
get that damn app on the real thing boy!
Well done, dude, well done.
I’ve heard MPlayer is good (from a windows user) but I always had trouble with it. VLC rocks.
I love VLC. Ive used my Eyetv to record almost every episode of Stargate SG-1 but saving them in the Eyetv-format is too space consuming. By using Toast, Ive been able to convert them to DivX which is a format that plays nice with VLC and the files are downsized to 1/4th of the Eyetv fileformat.
These news makes me glad because though I havent got an iPhone or Touch yet, I am planning to get one of them and then Ill be able to watch hours of SG-1 on it. After jailbread of course – would have been nicer if it didnt require that.
@Mymac4ever
The other good thing about VLC is it will play saved eyetv archives without having to convert or export them to MPEGs or some other format. So, if I’ve recorded a show on my iMac and want to watch it on my macbook, I just copy over the .eyetv file to take with me.
@Nutcracker
That worthless piece of crap program is a far, far, far better media player than what is included with this so called “world’s hottest platform.”
What a maroon.