The VLC Media Player, a free, portable, cross-platform media player and streaming media server, has constantly been the application that is able to play just about any media file. This includes the more unusual ones with just about whatever codec under the sun. Nevertheless, besides its regular updates, its exterior look or its position as the Swiss Army knife of media players has remained unchanged. But, for Windows 8.1, it seems that VideoLAN, VLC’s software developer, has made the decision to do something a bit different.
With Windows 8.1 carrying out a different method to software courtesy of the applications for the Windows store policy, VideoLAN advanced with making their own application for the operating system (OS). This now includes a cleaner and additional minimalistic user interface plan that would be easy on the eyes and will match the overall look of the Windows 8.1 itself.
The version 0.1.0 of VLC Media Player is only well-matched for Windows 8.1. It is simply for the tile-based border side of things and will most probably be unsuccessful on the traditional Windows desktop. Also, it may not be manageable on the older version of Windows 8. Due to this, the traditional version had a mixed reception which was because of its tablet-inspired interface. All these fresh improvements on how Microsoft has pushed Windows to encourage other software developers to take on this new appearance and design viewpoint, including VideoLAN.
This current edition of Windows 8.1 of VLC Media Player has been prepared to attune with the newly publicized Windows 10 as well.
Although, people should not forget that this edition of the application may have other limited functions as judged against its desktop-based counterpart, which isn’t in similar temperament with current ARM systems. As a result, it only works on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Technical Preview. Power users might not understand this restraint in replacement for aesthetics and compatibility with a newer OS.
On the other hand, the current update should decrease bugs and crash issues, as well as considerably develop its video decoding presentation for fewer numbers of lags during playback, which had previously been a problem for a lot of VLC users. This update is supposed to be automatically downloaded on those who currently have the VLC app on their systems.
The latest VLC Media Player app is now obtainable for express download in the Windows Store, then Windows Phone and Windows RT version is next to be released the public.