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VLC for Mobile 4+

VideoLAN

• • #71 in Photo & Video
• • 3.0 • 49 Ratings

• • Free

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Description

VLC for Mobile is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion.
It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web.
VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, and playback speed control.

VLC for Mobile is completely free and open source.

What’s New

· Add support for SMBv3
· Fix authentication regression with SMBv2 servers
· Fix DNS lookup regression with SMBv2 servers on IPv6-capable networks
· Fix login to Box.com

Ratings and Reviews

Fantastic with Few Flaws (listed)

1. Can’t sort music properly — Please, like every decent music library organisation add a function to sort albums by Artist (Album Artist) and discount/filter function words like «The» and «A» and special characters for ordering albums and artists

2. Only list view for music — Gallery view would be ideal, 2 or 3 columns album art view would go a long way, list view is silly for music files

3. Sorting albums with and viewing Track Number — Why isn’t this there already it’s a basic feature for any music player

Please, fix/add these features as these are basic requirements. VLC is amazing on all platforms and it’s the only way to get local music from a Linux OS onto iOS.

Latest update is terrible

5 column grid changes to a 3 column grid when you go into edit mode to delete videos. This means videos reflow so you need to look for the video again to delete it.
Also not sure why edit mode uses an icon that’s typically used for compose. The previous word button “Edit” made sense and the word button “About” is already used on the Settings screen.
Video thumbnails also don’t change to the still-frame that you were last watching.
Don’t understand these changes at all. Was working fine previously. The new Settings screen is nice and clean though and nice addition of automatic dark mode.

Developer Response ,

We will fix the inconsistent edit mode layout with the next update. For the Edit button, this is a good thought which I’ll discuss with the team. Regarding the video thumbnails updating automatically on playback position changes, this will come back. We switched to a different database which doesn’t allow this feature so far, but it will.

Works well with a few minor annoyances

I’ve used VLC for the past 3 years and it is great for anything I need with media. The ability to put movies and music on my phone without having to plug it in is great and I’ve had no issues with grouping. Great app all round.
Unfortunately it struggles with orientation lock. There’s an in app setting to lock the orientation of the player, but if you use it all the controls are blocked out except turning the lock off.

App Privacy

The developer, VideoLAN , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Cambodian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

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Family Sharing

Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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VLC for Mobile 4+

VideoLAN

• • #25 in Photo & Video
• • 3.1 • 116 Ratings

• • Free

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Description

VLC for Mobile is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion.
It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web.
VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, and playback speed control.

VLC for Mobile is completely free and open source.

What’s New

· Add support for SMBv3
· Fix authentication regression with SMBv2 servers
· Fix DNS lookup regression with SMBv2 servers on IPv6-capable networks
· Fix login to Box.com

Ratings and Reviews

Great but still bug in FTP codepage encoding

When special characters in codepage Win 1250 (Win latin 2) are part of a folder or file name, these are not only displayed incorrectly, but can not be opened at all. The FTP codepage settings on VLC in iOS do not make any difference — tried all options. This is a VLC bug, since on other iOS apps like eg. Documents, the FTP file names work just fine. Sorry but this really blocks use for me, so 3 stars only. Btw, there are more than 5 issues related and reported to VLC dev for longer time, but all were closed linked one to another as duplicate, still, the fix is missing.

Developer Response ,

Indeed, the fix is done but not rolled-out yet as we are waiting for another part of the app to receive finishing touches. Your feedback was heard! 🙂

Great again!

Recently VLC was presenting really ugly thumbnails stretched to aspect ratio 5:1 or something like that. I couldn’t even recognize movies by images. Now the video library is back to normal aspect ratio thumbnails.
Previous version was also showing individual mp3 files when they were in a folder. Not sure if this new version does that. I would like to keep albums separate even though metadata for albums are not defined. That’s something even Apple’s Music app cannot do correctly.

New version is worse experience

When i stop the video, There is no longer the pictures of movie where i stopped it (old version had this feature, when i stopped i could see the Last pictures in preview)

By this I have always knew what I want to delete.

It would make sence to order the movies as the ios pictures have it, from bottom to up. Close to a thumb.

Other way, the new update is very nice.
I would rather see better user experience then design.

Developer Response ,

We will re-add the automatic thumbnail update a bit later. It wasn’t ready for the new media library, but not forgotten.

App Privacy

The developer, VideoLAN , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Cambodian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Supports

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Family Sharing

Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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VLC for Mobile 4+

VideoLAN

• • #62 in Photo & Video
• • 3.3 • 332 Ratings

• • Free

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Description

VLC for Mobile is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion.
It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web.
VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, and playback speed control.

VLC for Mobile is completely free and open source.

What’s New

· Add support for SMBv3
· Fix authentication regression with SMBv2 servers
· Fix DNS lookup regression with SMBv2 servers on IPv6-capable networks
· Fix login to Box.com

Ratings and Reviews

Works Great! One issue though…

The app works as advertised and works well. The UI is clean, navigation is quick and it plays back video well.

My only issue with it is that the playback bar appears at the top of the screen which is pretty unintuitive, since most mobile video players put it on the bottom. It also presents usability issues as tapping near the top of the screen sometimes causes the notification shade to drop down. There’s no option to swap it from the top to the bottom either. Adding the ability to do that would make this a 5 star app for me.

Can’t complain it’s free

I don’t know why people are whining & giving low ratings to an app that is free. The developers are putting in their time & efforts and updating the app regularly without getting paid.
This app is supposed to be a very basic app that plays videos, it is not like other paid apps which cost 10-50 dollars for hi-fi features. I have an app called AVplayer whose developer abandoned the app and ran away with the money he made. It used to be a good app but now I have to use VLC for new audio-video formats & I have to say that I am impressed with VLC. Although I wish it was a copy of its desktop app but I am happy with what I have.

To the developers:
Don’t listen to the negative feedback unless it is about the performance. You do not have to cater to entitled freeloaders who want features of a $10 app for free. Keep doing the good job, I won’t complain as long as I am able to watch videos without any issues.

So Lucky To Have VLC

I had used iTunes from the start but never liked it much, it always took long time to synchronize and download the updates and after a few years the new updates become so complicated to use and once it deleted all my music playlists from my iPhone that had taken me a long time to create. since then I never add any to the music app, nor buy any music or movies from them.
Although time to time I need a music or two on my devices.
Now I needed to store and play a music on my new iPad and ‘voila’ VLC is here to help me out, make that happen!
I’ve just tied out PlayerXtreme, which is a very promising app., directly links with the iPad and imports the music, but that does not show the Thumbnail Image of the song, only a black background.
There you have it: VLC does show the Thumbnails as well and so it is a superior app. in that regards but of course direct music import is not available, but VlC is a free app.
All I can say it: Thank You.

App Privacy

The developer, VideoLAN , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Cambodian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

Supports

• 

Family Sharing

Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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VLC for Mobile 4+

VideoLAN

• • #63 in Photo & Video
• • 3.5 • 3.7K Ratings

• • Free

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Description

VLC for iOS is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.\nIt can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion.
It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web.
VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, and playback speed control.

VLC for iOS is completely free and open source.

What’s New

· Add support for SMBv3
· Fix authentication regression with SMBv2 servers
· Fix login to Box.com

Ratings and Reviews

Almost as good as it used to be.

. but not quite. A few months ago there was a VLC update that made your users go ballistic. Lucky for me I noticed this before updating and decided install VLC on my iPhone to monitor the app’s rehabilitation while continuing to use the non-screwed-up version on my iPad, where my video library lives. At the time, for me, the dealbreaker was that thumbnails were no longer using whatever frame a given video had stopped on (I like being able to choose my own thumbnail). I just noticed on my phone that at some point this important feature was restored. Great! HOWEVER. what is the need for empty space between thumbnails? And moreover, what is the need for placing the title below instead of upon the thumbnails? Both of these design choices decrease how large they can be and how many can seen onscreen at once. When I compare the library interface of the current version on my iPhone to the non-updated version on my iPad (v3.1.9) I much prefer the old view with them all packed together. Please make this an option in the settings so I can update VLC on my iPad. I’ll continue to monitor the app’s progress on my phone and when it is finally satisfactory again I will upgrade and give VLC the five stars I wish it deserved.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your detailed feedback!
The iPad keyboard is on our list, especially for those basic playback controls.
An iPhone based remote makes sense indeed, but is a bit more complex to do. It is on our list for the long run, but will not be worked on immediately.

Library management will be greatly improved later this year by a complete rewrite of the current user interface.

To leave a movie to go back to the library during playback, don’t swipe down, but use the pinch gesture.

Vertical Stretch & .srt problem

It’s now March 2021 and I don’t see any update that addresses the issues I’m still having with aspect ratios on my 6S Plus iPhone. I simply cannot buy a new phone with the 16:10 aspect ratio. I was told this issue would be resolved at the beginning of the year. What happened?

Thank for responding to my request for the return of “Vertical” stretch on IOS. But now I’ve discovered a problem with stretching 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 on both my iPhone 6S Plus and my iPad mini. A couple of years ago I created .srt English subtitles for Region 2 French Columbo episodes, as you know this 1970’s TV show is in 4:3 aspect. I haven’t watched them for quite a while, when I did the only option to fill the 16:9 screen, is “wide fit” which now cuts part of subtitles off. In the past, I’ve always been able to select 16:9 on either my iPhone or my TV’s remote, right now it appears that most of the aspect ratios are messed up. Please, Please fix this issue. VLC is a great app for studying foreign languages, especially because of the ability to adjust the play speed by 1% increments.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your detailed report. I can definitely understand the problem and will try to reproduce and fix it!

Version 3.2.0 ruined it

Update: my previous issue was resolved, but unfortunately, I really REALLY wish I could revert back to before I updated to this latest version (3.2.0). Now, TV shows are no longer grouped together, and my video tab just looks like a huge mess! It seems like in this update you spent too much time focusing on how the music part works, especially for a VIDEO player. I never really understood why there was a music option anyway to be honest. I don’t like the new playlist system because as someone else said, the main screen is still wicked cluttered. Also, when I tried to just put a tv show into its own playlist, they are all kinds of out of order and no way to organize them. BOO. This does not feel like an update, but a way to turn the video player into a music player. So now I have no way to get files off the main screen, no way to group episodes of a tv show together, and I have to hunt and hunt through all these video files to find what I’m looking for, but boy. that empty music section sure looks fancy.

Now the app no longer responds to my touch. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but to no avail. I don’t know how to use an app on a touch device that doesn’t respond to touch. It is useless now. Too bad because it was the reigning champ of video players for so long.

App Privacy

The developer, VideoLAN , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Cambodian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

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