VLC for Windows 8 Confirmed, to Be Released by March

hclarkjr · Dec 24, 2012

ImDonly1 · Dec 24, 2012

They got almost $70,000 from kickstarter to make a Win8 version of VLC. People can still donate and it could go higher.

lamedude · Dec 25, 2012

Will they get refunds when its pulled like the iOS version?

RampantAndroid · Dec 25, 2012

Why would it be pulled?

lamedude · Dec 26, 2012

GPL violation (the 5 device limit IIRC)
But if I had bother to check its not a problem with the Win8 store.

RampantAndroid · Dec 27, 2012

Yeah, I doubt Apple and MS have the same bar for apps to be passed

IamDavid · Jan 11, 2013

RampantAndroid said:
Yeah, I doubt Apple and MS have the same bar for apps to be passed

Actually the two are pretty similar. Both are scared to death of getting sued by some other company.

HeXen · Jan 11, 2013

VLC is the player i use on desktop. Would prefer this on ipad though, doubt i'll ever get into W8's mobile arena.

This would not be possible to do with volunteers,” developers said.

The story of Linux's life. (Referring to the countless half done projects and countless non modern apps.)