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VLC for Windows 8 now available in beta

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One of the most popular media
player, VLC, has been released on
the Windows Store for Windows 8.
The app is still in beta mode and
can be downloaded for free. For now,
certain bugs have been reported as
the app has just made its debut on
the new platform. After the bugs are
hopefully fixed, we might see a
stable official release soon.
Compared to the desktop version of
the app, there is a general lag while
playing videos including some audio
bugs as well. VideoLAN, the
developer of VLC, has said that the
new Windows 8 version is nearly as
stable as it should be.
The app features are the same as its
original version. The app is capable
of playing almost every video format
and supports music playback apart
from MKV support and FLAC support.
It is also compatible with both x86
and x64 versions of Windows.
The application version 0.2.0:
work on Windows 8.0 and 8.1:
too many people are still on 8.0,
so we had to use that. This
decreases the stability of the
application though.
is compiled for Intel x86 CPUs:
Windows RT version will follow as
soon as we are able to compile
it. ARM version will also apply to
Windows Phone.
plays all video and audio formats
of VLC, including MKV, Ogg and
Mov files or FLAC and MPC;
supports the same codecs as the
VLC application for desktop, from
MPEG-1 to H.265, through WMV3
and VC-1;
supports multiple-audio tracks
selection;
supports embedded subtitles;
supports Background Audio
playback;
features a easy-to-navigate but
complete UI, notably for audio
browsing;
supports Live Tiles!
supports removable storage and
DLNA servers.
Still, there are certain limitations
that have been reported, such as
This app is currently slow, and is
slower than VLC for desktop for
video decoding and has no
hardware acceleration;
Subtitles support is not very
good yet, and notably it only
supports embedded subtitles;
this is our major point of focus
for now.
Audio does not seem to work in
all configurations;
Playlists and streams are not
supported in the UI (they are
present in the core)
It's clearly not as stable as it
should be.
VideoLAN's President Jean-Baptiste
Kempf, has said that fixing bugs is
the priority for his team right now.
"After that, we need to rework the
thumbnails management and a
better integration with Windows;
also, the app is too slow to start."
he adds.
VLC for Windows 8 can be
downloaded from here.
Source: Kickstarter
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