VLC media player back with a bang in iOS app store

Did you ever want a better video player that could play all the type of videos?? don’t worry we are here to give you some good news. The VLC has returned to the App store and can now play all kinds of videos playbacks. The great open source video playback application VLC has again made its way back to the iOS app store after a public withdrawal in 2011. The app now can play all the file types like the one on desktop including .mkv and .avi and also it can stream into your device. The improvements just don’t end with that, it now has integration with dropbox, supports subtitles and also you can change the speed of the playback. It is also possible to adjust real time filters like saturation and gamma and share files over Wi-Fi by uploading them through the browser. VideoLAN says that it works like a charm in devices with iOS 5.1 or higher, but you might experience slower playback sometimes. Speaking this to the developers helped us understand that third party apps cannot actually use the harware acceleration for videos playback without using the apple’s frameworks. This whole project is opensource so you can download it for free and if your adventurous you can even look at the Xcode Back in 2011, VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont filed a complaint against the original VLC iOS app, created by developer Applidium. At the time, VLC was licensed under the now-outdated, open source GNU General Public License version 2. The dispute revolved around whether an app violated the GPL by releasing on a mobile platform. According to VideoLAN, the non-profit behind VLC, the version 2.0 of the app is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2, which makes it fine for App Store distribution.