VLC for iPhone

Jul 07

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vlc4iphone is a port of VideoLAN VLC media player’s source code to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This port was developed by ZodTTD. The initial intention of this port was/is to allow for less restrictions on formats played on the iPhone and iPod Touch, allow playback of media without syncing to iTunes, and streaming audio and video over HTTP/MMS/RTSP.

vlc4iphone is installed via Cydia only on jailbroken iPhones. It supports the following formats: MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP4, MOV, 3GP, OGG, OGM, Annodex, MKV, WAV (incuding DTS), DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, FLAC, FLV, MXF, Nut, Standard MIDI / SMF, and Creative™ Voice.

You can also use other applications while listening to vlc4iphone, from Cydia download and install “Backgrounder” this enables you to run processes in the background so you can listen to vlc4iphone and use other applications as well. However doing this can cause your iPhone / iPod Touch’s memory to become overloaded and it will start to force shutdown applications to free up memory.

As of writing this, I have not yet tested vlc4iphone. It is a 7mb download.

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