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After a long journey, waiting times and the certification process that was needed as part of the official release, VLC is officially here. Read below for more on it, as well as a video overview of its features.
At the very beginning of 2013, VideoLAN already had all the money it needed to continue the development of the official VLC app for Windows 8, as its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign had even exceeded the goals it has set. But the way it is finally over, and VLC for Windows 8 is here. We’re taking it for a ready and you can see how it looks like in the video from below before downloading it (link at the end of the article).
The application is official in version 0.2.0 and will work for Windows 8 users, as well, because VideoLAN cited the fact that there are many who still haven’t made the jump to Windows 8.1. The app also won’t work on Windows RT devices, as it has been compiled for x86 and x64 devices. Again, this is another feature which will get added with a future release.VLC for Windows 8 supports the same codecs as the VLC application for desktop, from MPEG-1 to H.265, through WMV3 and VC-1; it also supports multiple-audio tracks selection, embedded subtitles, background audio playback, Live Tiles, removable storage and DLNA servers, as you have seen in the above video. Besides the glitches that I have observed, VideoLAN also says that the app is currently slow, subtitles support is not very good and there are some issues with audio. Nonetheless, it performs the basic jobs quite well, so go ahead and download it from the Windows Store by following the link from below.
