Unofficial VLC media player hits Android devices
VLC for Android media player is an unofficial release and is in its beta stage. It has been released for public testing for only a few based processors: ARMv6/ARM11, ARMv7a/Cortex-A8/NEON and ARMv7a/Cortex-A9. And also made for Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich device only.
VLC is the popular media players that can play almost any file format that you drop into it and is a must have for anyone that uses lots of video files on the computer.
Adridu59 from XDA Developer Forum has posted a working version of the VLC Player for Android and has now reached the beta stage. As of now the release is slated for only a few based processors: ARMv6/ARM11, ARMv7a/Cortex-A8/NEON and ARMv7a/Cortex-A9. And also made for Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich device only.
Due to large number of Android smartphone models, it is difficult to list down all. However, if your device are the high end smartphones that were released in last 12 months you can certainly try out the VLC for Android.
So, if you also have confused check it down even further, a common device list of supported devices includes:
Snapdragon S2/S2 --> Cortex-A8/NEON
Snapdragon S4 --> Cortex-A9
Tegra 2 --> Cortex-A9
Hummingbird --> Cortex-A8/NEON
Exynos --> Cortex-A9
OMAP3 --> Cortex-A8/NEON
OMAP4 --> Cortex-A9
For people having trouble finding the compatible .apk to download, here are 5 wikipedia lists for each processor family.
Exynos: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos#List_of_historical_Samsung_SoC_and_current_ Exynos_SoC
Tegra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_2_series
OMAP3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_3
OMAP4: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4
VLC for Android media player is an unofficial release and is in its beta stage. It has been released for public testing for select hardware.
Source: XDA
Discussion
No responses to "Unofficial VLC media player hits Android devices"
There are no comments yet, add one below.
Leave a Comment