VideoLAN has a version of its popular open-source VLC media player running on the Apple Vision Pro, although they won’t be releasing it anytime soon, according to tech newsletter Lowpass. The popular media player recently surpassed more than five billion downloads across multiple desktop and mobile platforms.
“We already have a version of VLC running on the Vision Pro,” VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf told Lowpass writer Janko Roettgers.
Kempf says one of the reasons the app hasn’t already been released is that the potential Apple Vision Pro user base is still considered too small. “I’m not sure there is any use case yet,” he added.
The cross-platform media player and framework first launched 23 years ago as a student project and has become one of the most popular free media players, thanks to its support for multiple codecs and its ability to play multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and multiple streaming protocols.
VLC also continues to see a lot of usage on mobile devices; Android and iOS versions of the app have been downloaded around 318 million times combined. “People are still downloading VLC a lot,” Kempf said.
Kempf says work continues on VLC 4.0, with the core of the app being completely rewritten.
VLC 3.0.20 is a free download for Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, and Linux devices from the VideoLAN website.