VideoLAN – Announcing VLC for Apple TV and Video Playback
Jan 26, 2016 07:15 am / Posted by Jane Vivian | Categories: Apple
VLC on the Apple TV allows you to get access to all your files and video streams in their native formats without conversions, directly on the new Apple device and your TV. Following the VLC goal “VLC plays everything and runs everywhere”, you will get every feature and format support you are used to in VLC, and a few Apple TV specific features. And, following VideoLAN’s mission, VLC on the Apple TV is fully free and open source, and available right now on the App Store. Features summary VLC on the Apple TV allows normal playback of all file formats, including chapters navigation, multiple audio and subtitles tracks. It is also able to play files from UPnP, Windows shares (SMB), FTP and Plex servers; and is able to download automatically subtitles and artwork! Finally, VLC on the Apple TV allows you a kind of ‘casting’, where you can send directly your video files for any browser or app to the Apple TV. History Immediately after Apple announced “the future of television“, we’ve been working on the SDK to port VLC for iPads and iPhones to this new box. It needed quite a few adaptations, but it is now finally ready to be published. As soon as we could, in mid-November,