VLC media participant confirms Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional app is within the works

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional nonetheless lacks most of the apps that iOS and macOS customers are already aware of, and a few large builders have already stated they’ve little interest in bringing their apps to Imaginative and prescient Professional for now. Nevertheless, one app that’s coming to visionOS is the favored VLC media participant – no less than in accordance with VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf.

VLC coming to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

In an interview with Lowpass to rejoice VLC’s 5 billion downloads, Kempf confirmed that VideoLAN (the non-profit group behind the app) has been engaged on a model of VLC for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. “We have already got a model of VLC operating on the Imaginative and prescient Professional,” the developer stated.

Sadly, it could be some time earlier than the app turns into obtainable within the App Retailer, as Kempf himself admits that there’s no motivation to actively develop a visionOS app because of the small person base. “I’m undecided there’s any use case but,” Kempf identified whereas arguing that the quantity of people that personal a Imaginative and prescient Professional is de facto small.

Apparently, the president of VideoLAN additionally confirmed that he was open to engaged on a VLC app for Meta’s Quest headsets. Nevertheless, the plans had been shelved as there are already “many good gamers” obtainable for the platform.

For these unfamiliar, VLC is a free and open supply media participant obtainable for a number of platforms, together with iOS, macOS, and even tvOS. VLC helps most of the hottest audio and video codecs and is usually used to play media information that gamers resembling Apple’s QuickTime are unable to play.

VideoLAN has been engaged on VLC 4.0, which will probably be a significant replace that can rewrite “the entire core” of the app. Yow will discover the hyperlinks to obtain VLC on the app’s official web site.

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