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

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional nonetheless lacks lots of the apps that iOS and macOS customers are already aware of, and a few massive builders have already mentioned they’ve little interest in bringing their apps to Imaginative and prescient Professional for now. Nonetheless, one app that’s coming to visionOS is the favored VLC media participant – not less than in line with VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf.

VLC coming to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

In an interview with Lowpass to have a good time 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 mentioned.

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

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

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

VideoLAN has been engaged on VLC 4.0, which might be a serious replace that can rewrite “the entire core” of the app. Yow will discover the links to download VLC on the app’s official website.

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