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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the FKA-video-lan-client dept.

VLC is adding AirPlay support and will reach 3 billion downloads

VLC, the open-source video player app, is announcing two major milestones from CES today. The development team, Videolan — along with Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the lead developers — told Variety at CES that it'll be adding AirPlay support, allowing users to transmit videos from their iPhone (or Android) to their Apple TV.

The update could be released for the primary VLC app in "about a month," for free. However, VLC tells The Verge there's no specific release date yet.

[...] The second major milestone for VLC is that it’s closing in on 3 billion user downloads.

Here is the bug tracker for the 4.0.0 release.

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  • (Score: 1) by zemm on Friday January 11 2019, @02:26PM (1 child)

    by zemm (7178) on Friday January 11 2019, @02:26PM (#785033)

    I tried VLC on Android a few days ago and generally like it but every time I start it I need to tap Sort -> Date, and then Sort -> Date desc. Is there any way to specify the default sort for videos on mobile? Why does it not remember the last sort between sessions, is this a bug or am I just weird that I don't want to sort alphabetically?!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42PM (#785164)

    Heh, this reminds me of the CMS system we had at work, were it sorted alphabetically every time.

    It was sad that everyone in the group that used it, had, as part of their process, click date twice, every time they used it.

    Its like, what kind of person working on a project cares about the most alphabetical builds? They want the most recent ones!