Categories: Tech & Society

VLC Beta for Android hits the Play Store

The good news is, VLC Beta was released today, giving Android users a long-awaited taste of do-it-all media player VLC. The bad news is, VLC’s developers say the app is meant only for power users and hackers, meaning most of us should probably wait on downloading it.

Just like its bigger brothers on Mac and Windows, VLC is a free and open-source multimedia player that can open just about any media file out there. It offers an audio and video media library with full search capabilities, and supports subtitles and network streams, including HLS.

While VLC Beta is available to the public now, its developers make it clear that it is still an early build with a lot of unfinished elements. According to them, it’s unstable and slow, and in much need of performance improvements and a UI face-lift. Also, audio issues may occur when using it, and hardware decoding “works only with a limited set of hardware.”

All that said, if you still want to give this fan favorite a try, VLC Beta is available now for free from Google Play.

Team TechPanda

Recent Posts

Annotation workflow: From raw data to AI-ready insights

The world is filled with raw data, but raw data is of no value by…

2 days ago

India levels up: How the ban on Real-Money Gaming unlocked a $7.7B opportunity

What seemed like a blow to India’s gaming industry has turned into its biggest power-up…

2 days ago

AI Launches: Fintech, software development, search, no code, skilling, ecommerce, data storage, data center & AI research

The Tech Panda takes a look at recent launches in the superfast field of Artificial…

3 days ago

Empowering businesses with Unified Device Management: Streamline security & productivity across platforms

In a modern business, device diversity is not just an operational reality; it is the…

5 days ago

Can taxes cool down AI & crypto’s power hunger? The IMF’s betting on it

We already know that because of the electricity used by high-powered equipment to “mine” crypto…

6 days ago

All our eggs in one cloud: When AWS sneezed & the Internet caught a cold

The recent service outage that Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced in the US brought several…

1 week ago