Something that I really like is that it plays my FLAC music files. It doesn’t support all of the types that the desktop version does, and there’s room for a lot more, it’s a start and worth trying out if you’re a VLC fan. The file indexing is a nice touch as well. While it isn’t perfect yet, it does work for getting the job done - which is playing your music and video files. There is also a nice Search feature you can access from the Charms bar.Īnother cool thing it does while playing music is give a short biography of the artist, other albums from them, and a list of similar artists. However, it does support closed captioning and subtitles. The Settings and features are almost non-existent in this beta. Right-click on the screen and it offers you basic playback functions. Right now there isn’t a way to control the aspect ratio or the ability to use the filters you can on the desktop version. While it indexed my media, it displayed it in a similar manor of Xbox Music with artists in alphabetical order and nice icons for album art. If you have a lot of media, expect this to take some time…and in my experience it crashed a couple of times. It will also find any external drives you have attached, and it sees my Windows Home Server, but I am not able to access anything yet. When first installing the modern version of VLC it will be unresponsive will indexing your music and video folders on your hard drive.
It currently doesn’t work with Windows RT – which is installed on Surface, and Surface 2 devices - which seems odd considering it’s a modern app. To run it, you’ll need a full version of Windows 8 or 8.1. So expect some issues and bugs while using it. You can see what features the VLC for Windows Phone beta requires, by tapping the app in the Windows Phone Store and swiping over to Details.This is a beta version and there are a few caveats and missing features compared to the desktop version. Pre-requisites to download VLC for Windows Phone beta:īefore downloading the app, ensure that your Windows Phone 8.1 device fulfills the following requirements: Smartphone users running Windows Phone 8.1 OS within their devices, can download the beta VLC Player and let us know about the intuitiveness of the application's features.
This version is the first beta of the port of VLC media player to the Windows Phone platform. VLC Player for Windows Phone 8.1 exits signup-phase, official beta available for download.
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