VLC media player officially arrives on Windows Phone [Update]

You didn't need to restart your phone. Just long hold the back button, and swipe down to close VLC (I had the same problem).
Anyway, VLC on WP is a big sack of poo. Instantly uninstalled

Of course I tried long press lol. It literally froze my 1020! Like the back, windows, and search buttons were not working. Only resetting fixed it but yea I hope this isn't the beta feels more like an alpha.

No issue on my 1020. I do not have a video to play on it though.. but it opens and searched for music.

The same issue on my 820.

This isn't even beta I guess..it doesn't work at all. If there were a few bugs it's ok...but it's still totally useless

Same Issue here , It frozen my phone two and I had to restart. and now it crashes as soon as it opens :\
Damn!! 

Stupid app wont stay open long enough to add all my music. Crashes everytime.

It lags even playing videos from camera roll. *cover eyes* L1520

Its a first release so it has alot of bugs

I downloaded it when I saw it and erased it the lag and didn't read an mkv file.

How much music do you have? I've got over 3000 songs and haven't experienced that problem.

What I said.. Plays the first video.. Video lags..oh well :D

Mpeg2 video don't lag, anyway it's a beta release

MP2 video doesn't lag because it doesn't require any real processing power. Even if it isn't hardware accelerated. What I'm most worried about with VLC is how it will perform with h264 video in an MKV container. That requires a lot more processing power. While the hardware in all WP devices can decode this using hardware acceleration and Moliplayer and CCPlayer use this on WP. This isn't quite the case for the desktop VLC application and the Windows 8 VLC application. Here hardware acceleration in VLC works badly at best and sometimes not at all, causing too high battery drain and power usage. This is mostly due to the very badly optimized codecs that VLC uses. When you don't have enough processing power available the video will start to lag too. I'm very worried we're going to see the same problem (laggy video, crazy battery use) but then even worse on WP8.1 with VLC, because processing power on WP8.1 devices is obviously less available than on Windows 8.1 and Windows RT devices.

Good to know all that... Stuff.

I know it's beta. Anyways Mp4 is my case.

Wohoooo! #ButLetMeCommentFirst Thank you developers for supporting our platform.

Crap. After the ages of development this? It's not playing Camera Roll videos on Lumia 930 (slow and jittery).

Do you know that VLC Android Version just got out of Beta 2 weeks back... Don't always keep shitting with your dirty mouth... Just give time for developers... After all you don't know the pain of developing apps and how much time and resource it takes..

Whatever you say, what ever you say... ;)
Time to developers? :D http://www.windowscentral.com/vlc-coming-windows-mobile
http://www.windowscentral.com/vlc-windows-8-win-phone-8-kickstarter-hits... They should have been working on that at least 2 years.

I think the phrase you're were going for is "talking shit" - but you are 100% correct!

Unusable

Another app Verizon icon users can't use unless they install dev preview... F u Verizon.

Get DP

Our whole company has the icon. IT departments aren't going to support preview software.

Wow, your whole company has the Icon? That's awesome! What company do you work at?

A small one. We have twenty icons to be exact. B4 that we had Lumia 920s on att. Had we know how slow Verizon would be, we would of stuck with att.

Why would you not be on preview...

For me it doesnt download at all it stucks at 50%

It is free.....

Cancelled the d/l after reading this.

Oops

The VLC!!! HAS COME BACK!!! TO WINDOWS PHONE!!!!!

now wait for windows 10 for phones until it gets perfect.

Yup.. (:

Is windows 10 gonna get me a girlfriend too?seems like it....

Or a boyfriend (it tries to please everyone) ;)

#nohomo

Just wait until windows 11...

I hope this is sarcasm because of you think an OS is going to fix apps and everything else in the world, you will be sorely disappointed.

Woosh

Yep...you're right.

Finally heard from you guys .. What's up with the delay !

I dunno, half of us are flying to CES? It's Sunday? I can think of 10 other reasons :'(

1000 downloads in under half an hour seems pretty great though !

I can't believe you guys weren't sitting there hitting refresh on the store until it showed up and the immediately hit post on your article that you had already written in perpetration for this day. In fact, I can't believe you didn't have some auto post feature set in the article that monitored the store for this app to be published. I'm so disappointed and may have to start going to wmpoweruser for my news... ;-)

Bye man! Will miss you:)

Damn it! They're late!!
Your life is over *dcutting*! It's over!!!
Sad to see you dying this way :'(
Good bye!
*cries an ocean of water*

I know, right, lol. Some people are so ridiculous.

Ignore the whiny bitches, Daniel. :)

Daniel = kindness at its best.

Really? You've been smoking your socks again haven't you?

Kind of =/

Halaluya !!

Its hallelujah dude!

Hahaha...well done chodhry :)

Well this came late on wpcentral. Usually WP central is always ahead of others

Yeah, because its Windows Cemtral ^^

No, it's Windows Central 

Get it right! It's Windows Central ;P

New Year GIft :)

Amen!

It says this item isn't available anymore...

Got the same problem :/
Edit: Aah its fixed. :)

Ya but native player is better for me compared to vlc.

The point about VLC was that it could play more formats (FLAC, MKV, etc.) but now it's not playing anything so whatever. Currently you need third party apps for MKV and the likes, apps like CCplayer and Moliplayer are two I know of.

Why am I not able to download??? It says pending and then attention required repeatedly:( btw I have good net connection.

Regional issue maybe? I just finished downloading in US settings.

Dude even I am set to usa region!!!!

I see. It's independent of your regional settings... I was able to download, though. A lot more are users reporting the same installation issue :/
BTW, the app is too buggy, as expected.

Bro don't worry it also happen with me. Try again after 12 hours

Same here, germany.

Item isn't Available in the Store

Keeps crashing.

Wait, wait, wait. Is this vastly improved over the beta??? Still downloading though. Update.... Seems that the beta version is now busted. Crashes on start-up. Also, public version is improved over beta but video playback still inconsistent

I'm able to download it... Any idea if we should keep the beta for future development?

Finally freedom from all low quality and buggy apps.

Why is the publisher name 'videolabs' instead of 'videolan' ???

because it is the same in Android . :)

Waiting for KMPlayer..

Waiting for mx player

It's in store but its beta

Waiting for WMPlayer... :P

^haha lol

Waiting for jet video, my favourite

Why KMPlayer ? Need to see some 3Dmovies on your phone ?

Cuz, I've been using KMPlayer for 4 years on my PCs..

Waiting for YouTube (oops, shouldn't have said that)

Its sloww as hell in my lumia930.,videos from camera roll are not playing

Crashes immediately for me. Reboot didn't help.

Rip moli !!!!!!!

I think moli is perfectly fine as this isn't on the same level yet

Moli is far far better than this shit..

Exactly!

This is still in Beta and Moli is a payed app

As of now, moli is infinitely better, they don't even come close! I haven't been able to play a single video on vlc, at least moli 'worked' from day one! Good UI but that's all there is right now!

Moliplayer isn't beta ;)

Does it plays subtitles too?

Really very early!

I can not find it , I type vlc media player in the store search and it doesn't come, exactly where is it?

We posted the store link here? Also, things are not indexed.

Arghhhhhhh. It shows item not available in the store.. Am from India.. What's the problem now??

Hey indian!!! I am from India too:) nice to meet you!

You are all from India.

i'm from india too

Same problem here

https://www.windowsphone.com/s?appId=44fa83f7-a98d-4647-b9d4-c35ed729d0c9

Lol at the version number. Are there any other apps that do it the way they did? I've never seen that before on Windows phone. Also, the one thing I really wanted was the ability to use it as a remote for the desktop app. I hope that we get that soon. The third party solutions are laggy and unstable for me.

Yes. I have about two other apps in my app list with version numbers like that. Not quite sure which ones though.

My app also use such Version Numbering :P https://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/fit-me/d6f34c91-a8ab-464d-a...

Try VLC Mobile Remote. Works perfect via wifi on both my Ativ S and Lumia 1520.

Thanks to developer n Microsoft.

Got it

Did they pull it off the store? It says "item not available in the store"

"This item is not available on store" WTF!!!

You need Windows Phone 8.1

Windows phone 8.1 update 1 with Lumia Denim update. :-|

Not only the app crashes each time I try to play a video but also the phone becomes unresponsive for some time after I try to close it.

So here's the feedback. I installed the app to my SD. As soon as I play a video, the app gets stuck and I have to kill it. Music is not playing. Play time for most songs is shown as 0 seconds, it might be because those were downloaded through mix radio. The app took time to read videos and music from my SD and after detecting them it took time to detect their run times. For now nothing is working.

Same problem is happening with me

Doesn't work on Lumia 928. Complete steaming pile of cow manure.

Playtime stuck at zero ain't because of MixRadio downloaded files. All of my songs downloaded via Music Import are behaving the same. It's another bug.

It's buggy as hell. When I press a video it freezes.

Can not believe it! I had never installed application which caused literally freeze my phone! I tried to fire up mp4 video. Does not respond to anything! I can not even switch off the phone because I do not react to anything. Crap gentlemen !!!
Lumia 925. Win 8.1 Dev.

Finally. Haha

Man... Its nt available in d store...

It crashes all the time

dnt try to play any videos !

Performance seems really broken on my L920 and HTC 8X :-( not even bothering with the L520. Anyone experiencing similar poor performance?? Even the smallest videos are struggling to get smooth playback, switching between landscape and portrait crashes the app :-(

What a joke.Cant open my Ondrive files.

Crashed within 15 sec of launch, bravo!
+930

Its crash and hanging everytime.
do you have the problem??

my phone restarted 2times !!

Finally

Does it supports back ground playing now ?
Updaters please keep me update.
Ty

No .

Freezes when opened. Uninstalling.

Judging by the comments it sounds like they should have kept it in testing for longer.

Never saw that coming...

Okay I had click the link from the article, thanks

On my 1520 it crashes after 5 seconds in to the app.

Honestly can someone tell me what's so special about this app? I've seen everyone talking about it for a year now! Thanks :)

They do not want moliplayer pro which is paid app but vlc which is free that is it.

The speciality is that it takes years to build it, and when it comes out to the store, voilà!!! As expected it hangs and is crippled in every possible way:)

Lol

Buggy

This is a shit app! Also crasher. Getting really tired of this shitty official apps like this one and instagram, vine..u name it. I swear to god I am leaving shitty windows eco system.

Bye:)

Kutte..

Kamine:)

Tata.

Forget this 'official' apps thing, IMHO it appears the future of WP is with the new and 'indie' devs, they always deliver over and above expectations: moliplayer, mytube, metrotube, tubecast, all the Rudy apps, tweetium, even mixradio etc. These 'unofficial' apps seem to do very well what appears so difficult or downright impossible for official apps!

I work as a consultant and during my daily work day I meet a lot of Indian people and they have this in common: They have great CVs and education but when it comes to do work they can't think for themselves and they implement shitty solutions. That's why they are all under paid and also they stink curry. Note that I am Indian but birne and raised in Sweden.

So you are one indian who stinks of sweet dish??? Haha :D

Not sure but I'm pretty sure he thought h he meant Indian when he said indie lol.

Don't be fed up.After all it I a phone.

If I a phone, then who was phone?

Just fuck off... Don't spam our websites

Your website? Pray?? Who the hell are you, the owner of Mobil nations?

Our in the sense Windows Phone lovers :) And who care if  sayemchi leaves WP ...

I think Microsoft cares since I have bought 4 WP phones last 2 years. They would be loosing an great customer.

Your website? What are you talking about?

Its not working

It has been a long ride

Holi shit. Download In-completed from store.
After few minutes it's saying "Item is not available"
Zzzz

It keeps crashing.

For me Lumia 820 user app is playable after restarting both Xbox videos app is better for me.Lets hope developer update their apps.

Item not available.. What's this??

Useless it crash in Lumia 520 even if installed in phone memory.

Does it support background playing?

Try cc player it's the best of all

yes it's best !  ! infortunetly it doesn't support avi format :'( 

Oh I never knew here in my country most of the movies only in mkv format so couldn't notice about avi.. Anyway thanks for informing mate :)

Seems buggy. :/

This Player is AWESOME! Thanks Windows Central!

You are a unique sample..the only one to have found this app to be awesome!!

Probably hasn't tested it yet :-)!!!

Works great here too, videos and music play fine. No bugs so far but only tested on my 1520, next up my 930 and 920.

Seriously??? What videos did you play successfully? Any 1080p HD?

y wp apps are incompatibile?? is the platform not suitable for 3rd party apps? is it the incapability of devs? is it bcoz all are preparing apps and programmes for windows 10 OS?

I think many devs are either just not putting the necessary effort to deliver good apps on WP or the programming language and paradigm is dramatically different from C-style platforms, although in my experience, that doesn't really stop a good developer.
If you observe the well built apps on WP, they are often built originally for WP, not some copy-paste style port that leads to crap performance.
Seems the vlc team worked really hard though, I'm surprised the current performance is this poor :-(

So far plays video and music fine, no crashing or hangs yet...1520

Not all users. US users

What? Cant download it! Item not found in the store?

Woot

It crashes again and again and videos is not opening at all .

This public version can't play songs when sorted by Artists or Songs. HD video playback still lags. Only good thing about public version is the inclusion of background playback which private beta is yet to get.

All local songs are playable but you won't get album art Posted via the Windows Central App

Go to Music section and then select "Songs" or "Artists" from the dropdown menu and try to play any song. It won't play any. Its only playing songs selected from "Albums".

Vlc crashing again n again and sending bug report

Only some HD videos play.most don't play.

.........Denim?

Read the article.

Now wats dis...its showing item not available.....wat z dis?.....
Kkk..now dis tym its fixed..thnk god...

Is it me or the media playing cant be paused !!

Yes video cannot be paused. Posted via the Windows Central App

When will we get flip board to flip? Vlc to play videos? Denim update to our phones? When? O when?

Soon...

working grt in my 630 as a 1st release awesome luv it

Yeah works pretty good on my 630 as well.

Yaa really when??????

Right now...

Item not found in store!!!

You need Windows 8.1

Waiting eagerly for myTube update ...

Maybe they shouldn't have released it yet. It does only play one of the phone videos (830) I've tried and it was choppy. The others only played the sound. None of the MP3's I've tried would play and they all where reported to be 0 seconds long ...

Am downloading....

Gug UI but the app crashes when trying to play music it dznt play music at all

Well I have 2 VLC apps now, Beta and this one but not sure what's the difference between them is... Sigh

Wtf... 1st time download failed!!! And now it is showing unavailable???

On Lumia 1520 crashes and delays.

When will crashing of apps for wp stop for good lol

It's about time someone on this site denotes the 8.1 requirement

Lots of bug.. But I wanted it.. Finally I got it.. Satisfying on my Lumia 735 dual sim..

On my 1520, it plays. It doesn't pause, but it plays AND the subtitles are working.

Not on mine.

Lags cant play hd. And crashes every time
terrible app.

They mustve gotten the Xbox Music guys to build this app. Fast, beautiful, bug-free! /s

This or the Xbox Video app guys

Where the beta testers at? Lol.

After so many years

MS and/or VLC are in hurry to launch the apps on Windows Phone, that's why it's came up with bugs.

Well tried it and it crushed opera mini all over again

Wait for the update ...they will fix the bugs by tomorrow.

Who told you? Thomas nigro?

An update has already been pushed to the store. You will get it within 24h. Who told Me? Thomas Nigro. But I don't feel it will be able to fix bugs.

Its really awesome

Camera Roll 1080p Video playback very choppy on the Lumia 930.

Wtf...the item is not available in the store

Well working on Lumia 1520

Adds all music from my 128gb SD card no probs, but zero album art

Ya same for me no album art only question mark.even Xbox music app is great compare to this.

No ALBUM ART issues for me !! Works great !!

Connect to internet it is fetching album art but it is taking long time Posted via the Windows Central App

Its not playing my songs. And I don't know why... Can this happen coz of me completing all the id tag of that mp3's?? Restart didn't change anything

I played more than 10 mp3 files..it worked well !!

Almost all popular apps are coming to windows phone but with lots of bugs and not with full features like ios and android

Opera Mini got some competition

Did they pull it? Can't download

Garbage

How did they release this app? Was it tested before the release? I dont think so cause the app is not working at all

I think it was only tested on an emulator! There's no way a physical phone can survive this app :-(

It has 5 *'s but nobody has rated it yet.... Lol

Another beta that doesn't work, sad

Some are saying they are not able to download...so maybe they have pulled out the app due to lot of bugs

Finally, I can get rid of moli player

No, you better don't. Moli is better.

Crash crash crash . Bugs Bugs Bugs !!!

So over VLC. Used to be my goto but they have dragged their feet so long there are plenty of alternatives that work fine. Happy for those that have waited patiently for it. I commend your patience. :)

Keeps crashing. #ICantEven

Yup its buggy but y'all wanted it....

This app useless music and video doesn't play. slow unresponsive it can't be even beta.....

Its smooth on 1520...except pause button is not working while playing videos

Same thing on my Lumia 820 pause button not working.

Well. After all that wait. And to give us this shit? You know, maybe people who bad mouthed vlc were right. After all that effort, (or maybe not), and you still couldn't make a decent WP app? Man. You guys suck.

App is not avaliable at store?

You need Windows Phone 8.1

Once you start playing music and go to another app, how do you return to the Now Playing screen?

WHAT A PILE OF C***

Awesome! Thanks VideoLan you all rock!

I can't download. It says item is not available in store

Cool, but I think I'il still be using zbox ;)

When I clicked on the download app link.. It says " Item not available at store"
Why???

In store last update is 2nd Jan,when it arrived actually ?

Am trying with an MKV but is odd don't even detect the file downloaded from the downloads folder just odds also tried to play an mp4 video and my phone crashed had to remove the battery just odd

Won't play my videos which are not long btw...

My god, you people can complain... SMH. The app just got release people, give it time.

You are right but isn't even accomplishing with the purpose that was created

Don't release a useless app! We were waiting patiently.

At least it should like basically 'work' right?? We are not asking for much are we??? I haven't even been able to play a 15 minute clip without it crashing!

No album art, slow #totalwasteoftimedontbother

Yeah. It's a good for nothing app. Not surprised though, windows 8 version is also a disaster!

I am NOT HAVING ANY ISSUES with the app be it video playback or Music playing so far... Just had to wait for it to index things up and VOILA.... I'm using a Lumia 830

Check if ur phone is android :)

Hahaha!

The reviews on the VLC for Android aren't very good either.

Crashing

Ya video player without pause function .unbelievable

It's crashes every time I play a video

Do I want this app if I don't store videos locally?

I was just thinking about it today morning. Let's try this! :)

I think they have released crashing version

Sweet, the beta version doesn't show camera roll videos yet unlike this one (well for me anyway). Can't wait for Jan 21st!.

21st january?? For what man???

The Windows 10 event? I'm excited for it as well.

25th.. Not 2121st

21st*

Cool

And now people can FINALLY stop whining

Installed. Useless. Uninstalled

This app is good for nothing. Absolutely!

Crashes my whole phone, making my screen unresponsive and making me soft reset within response at times. Will wait for bug fixes for now uninstalled 920

YESSSS!!! I'm so happy!

By the way, I get the message of not available for download.

Crashed upon opening on my 920

A dream come true. Seriously !!! :p

Does it play flac?

Not playing songs, on Lumia 730, videos are ok

hey cannot download it shows item not available in store-_-

I could download it, no problems, but the app stinks.

I downloaded it and I'm not part of the beta gang

Uninstalled!!

Video works fine for me but music won't play, really beautiful interface though is gonna be great once all the bugs are squashed

Lumia 620 Developer's Preview
1) Not playing a single song.
2) On video launch - application is crashing.
3) Duplicating tracks.
Disappointed :(

Oh yeah!

http://i.imgur.com/HQPdjvG.png Ok some epic fails. 1. VLC downloaded MJ album art for Coldplay X&Y. FFs all my music is bought from itunes and has album art, just use that. 2.Even videos from camera roll lags and breaks up. Also the phone heats up.

It keeps crashing.

Downloading taking a whole year, cancel download, ##%&***^€**

Downloaded the app even though I'm not part of the beta

Probably they have quickly read the two post and the website , and decided take off the software for more details and improvements I hope they do, looks like they only have thought in whose who have the latest model from Microsoft leaving to the legacy models like the 820,1020 etc in the freezer by what appear in the comments which only works in the newer models of phones

Yeah am a lumia 820 user app is downloadable am not part of beta.Only some videos don't play.No album art or song info.shows unknown song.But videos nd songs playable. Posted via the Windows Central App

I'm not a part of Beta team, but I successfully installed the app... So they had a minute leak)

Windows Central has now started trolling us...

Indeed.

I am not part of the beta and I could download and use the app anyway...just for the record.....anyway the app is actually unusable, since the camera roll videos don't play, but you can only listen to the audio

I didn't sign up for the beta and was able to download and use the app. Still able to use it. :)

what are u saying guy's it works fine on my L730

People are actually downloading mkv files to their phones? Where'd you find 5tb SD cards?

With good compression settings a 2 hour, 1080p mkv movie can be as light as 5gb.

Lol was using a video of test of the page of divx

App doesn't work when the screen is locked.

Can't download this app!!! In India..

Having same prob.. Cannot dwmld the app.. Having 'attention required' shit coming again and again..

Exactly. If u have some solution then reply to me. Or contact me on twitter id - cb0851

U have to reset ur phone to dwnld it.. I used to face the same prob with vlc beta app..

Actually, you don't have to be part of the beta to install it. I'm not part of the beta and it installed without issue.

Good news - background audio works. Bad news - if you exit the app and reopen it, it won't know that it's currently playing a song.

It is not a video player.. It is a freezer.
Iit only plays music not videos.

Can it be used for my pizzas as well?

Never freeze a pizza dude. That's just wrong

Welcome to windows Phone :) I have playing some MP3's it worked well...Video little lagging !! Good for a beta release :) Keep em Coming :D

No video playback. :(

MoliPlayer is pretty good.  But I will give this a try.

This actually is working for me except for the playback buttons and without access to the beta as well. But its obviously still rough

Can't play any song xD it opens the folders but can't play them =(

The Update part of the article is wrong: I'm not part of the beta program and I successfully downloaded and installed the application on my 1020.   This being said, it's clearly a beta, had to soft-reset my device ^_^    

it is buggy verry buggy. restarted my 1020 and tried it again but it was still not working so removed it again.

I will use my phone for a road block by using freezed app.

Wasn't part of the beta and was able to install. Change title of story to "Beta Now Open to Public", solved the problem will be. Btw ummm, the play button doesn't become a pause button when you start playing a song. It still works though. Haven't tried it on a video yet because from what everyone is saying there are issues and I don't watch that many videos on my phone so I can wait. Hopefully this will become a suitable replacement for Xbox music :)

I can't play my music

I'm not a beta tester, and I've it

Yes, successfully installed in India on my l620. I am not a part of beta.

It sucks doesn't play mp3s ,only shows recently played porn videos which it also cant play
 

Lol!

Very funny Posted via the Windows Central App

Hahaha, you made my day.. Haha

For those who can't read their music, try a soft reset, most users were able to access their music afterwards (and sw reset is harmless).

I too was able to download from store. Videos are laggy, some artifacts. Note that those videos play nicely with built-in player. Big WTF: Vlc is somehow downloading cover arts which are not the ones included in my mp3 files. I take great care when choosing the cover arts and now I have a bunch of strange or not related cover arts. Didn't found any way to block this feature.

Did you add the cover art through the id3 tag? I haven't found any issues yet but now you have me worried. Gonna play a bunch of mp3s and see if the covers are correct.

Yes all my mp3s have the cover in tag. Also Wp creates a folder jpeg for every file. But covert art from vlc doesn't match at all.

This app is crashing and sometimes even freezes on my 920 I hope we see updates on it soon I love the UI and the formats it supports

I found a difference. Previous beta version doesn't play music in background. But this version does.. At least I am happy for this.

Well at least we know what the C in VLC stands for.

Working great on my Lumia 1520 WP 8.1 !!

I was able to access and I don't have beta version.

Anyone try to play flac yet? It doesn't find mine :/

this app is a joke. I wonder whether people who created it even tested this "app" 1. it haz zero stability 2 GUI is a joke.

Probably because the app is developed by the company's intern.

Calm down people! Its a BETA. It works ok* for me, considering as a first public beta build. Buggy but beautiful. Having many issues with playback and controls. But still a better alternative. BTW its still available to download. I don't get it. Now articles are confusing and robotic. Come, 'near to the real world'. Thanks

It works for me and I'm not enquired in the beta.

I'm not part of the Beta program and I was able to install it... But, too buggy D:

And she need many updates

It...

needs...?

Ok so now I can play my music but not videos I have to say that this app has epic design it's still buggy sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't

It took the shit out of me but then i read the update! XD

It is missing dlna :'(

I downloaded it

The music player works perfect...Atleast enjoy that. :)

Same. Unusable, not in Beta but got it. Sure it will get better. Would rather have mx up and running.

I can't play videos or music, what the hell? XD

Downloaded it but music would not play L520

So they ditched private beta updates, and launched this one? This has background audio, unlike the latest beta 0.0.1.5.

Ohh god, can't play my music as well -_-

Woohoooooo

This is a public release, Windows Central! v1.0
What you report in the Update of the news is not true!

Good news

It should be comes wid some more xtra settings ..like sw/hw playback settings.. Im jst trying to play 1080p video on my Lumia 535 wid vlc and defult play...its jst hang up....bt whn I play the same video wid moliplayer pro .. Wid sw setting it playing smoothly .. So I think it requires some more features and improvement..

Won't play anything, crashes the phone. But beautiful design and direct access to folders. I'm really looking forward to this once they get it working right.

So I'm the special thanks. Helped fund them like 2-3 years ago since they first asked for windows 8 and till now nothing for wp8 or RT that I cared about. If I could I'd take it back. I've donated to more hard working and talented ppl than them it feels. Know I sounds mean but like I said. Out of all donations this one seems and feels like this.

No what you said is perfectly right. Most people who funded them wanted the app for their phone or RT tablet. The desktop already had VLC. And most desktop users still prefer and use the desktop application because it is better than the app. But the phone and RT users haven't got anything for what they funded. It turned out to be a bad investment.

Doesn't work on icon.

Had problems downloading last update when it was private beta. Uninstalled it awhile ago. The app has not lived up anywhere near the hype surrounding it.

Argh!

I don't get it. Were the beta testers umm...TESTING? Were they not reporting all of these issues?

We are.. Bt they aren't improving the app.. :/

That's a waste of beta testing then. They should've just released it as the official version and fixed the issues when they were ready to update. Beta should be to use feedback to fix bugs.

clearly u guys have no clue what to do with your WP device. You see big numbers and big price and you buy it. There is no circumstance that requires you to use VLC media player, the phone has everything already. It's just like Opera for WP, why get it? so u can see that red round icon? overall this is a useless app for kids who think VLC is god among players

This^ WP already plays most of the popular formats. And the system apps will always work better than third party apps.

Completely useless. I wonder how it got the Store certification.

Same here ... I checked only d app..then uninstall...but good to see vlc in windowsphone platform :-);-)

agile, doesn't freeze, doesn't crashes on me... yet.

Not working

Is it ever going to support playing stuff over network shares like vlc desktop??

It installed and works for me and I'm not in the beta

Loving the app. Sure it has a few issues such as closing or freezing on videos, and mixing up music metadata, but this is a good step ahead of Xbox music in terms of what it does musically. When this is the finished article it will be AMAZING!!!

No, it isn't not better than Xbox Music or even Xbox Video.

Cant download it because of the PRNDING problem!! Damn it!!

Having the same problem

First of all thanks videolan for for your effort to port vlc to phone...whatever these guys say..im proud for u guys ..for providing this app..it has some tweaks that has to be looked on to..that's all ..apart from that its a candy cool marvellous player...thank u once again videolan

Nono in my lumia 820 its working very good!

Get the cc player pro. Just spend a bit and you'll have a stable video player

Still in beta

Well finally thanks to VLC media for making windows phone store blessed.

Trying to load my entire music collection with album.covers in one view is probably not a good idea. That's probably the only thing they should've taken from Xbox.music. Alphabetized tiles, list view with album names and then show the album cover when I click the actual album name please. Unless they can figure out a way to efficiently load potentially thousands of album covers with smartphone hardware manning the wheel. I don't think it's possible.

Item has been removed from the store

Haha, again, you have to wait for this in 2015!

Download first, then come back to read article after. Hehehehe.

Store is still lagging not downloading anything. Just showing all pending

Finally, they remembered that Windows phone exist

private beta to public beta :P

Just a media player to support multiple video formats, yet it is like taking ages to release on Windows Phone. Look at the great amount of selection choices of such players available on Android / iOS. And this is what we called app gaps. Is pathetic!

I strongly recommend ccplayer to the people who all commented for this article especially for Indians it would be a great app... And please Mr. Daniel rubino write an article about ccplayer please it's my request....i hope you'll post an article considering my request thank you in advance.

I think moliplayer is the best app, worth the amount of money u spend on moliplayer. Eay better than mx player in lagroid

It's a gratitude to own vlc bro!

It says item not available in the store

The item is not available in the store???? What's that

Works on my T-Mobile Lumia 925

Apparently there's a warning in the settings says "this is not working yet" but overall even though it doesn't play music and videos just yet, the interface looks promising

Plz fix the bugs everytime I play it some time search and then crush. Wtf ! In android have very good vlc player and in windows why not.....

What about for Surface RT?

Crashing all the time in my L720. Not even played a single audio or video file

The fact that it find more of my album art versus XBM is a plus. Even with the bugs I'm finding.

It says tat app isn't available in the store

After showing item is not available in the store, finally I am able to download it

I don't get it. So many devs have already created such good apps for video playback like MoliPlayer and others. But VLC team could not do it even after more than a year. Those devs just made the app and published the app to the store and it worked fine. VLC on the other after so much fuzz got no buzz.

My assessment ... overhyped.

OMG Its finally! But doesnt give the real pleasure of having it, crashes all time, heavy lag, and significant negative impact on your Lumia. It seems like not a BETA instead a Pre-Alpha!!!! Would require a lot of effort to bring to a proper version. I think they should work close with guys at Microsoft. I read that its a accident leak of beta to public, but I have never seen a beta with this much bugs and crashes.

Lots of unknown artist album etc

Crashed after 1sec of opening

Crashed after 1sec of opening

Still the beta release. Cant download on my 1020

Update!!
Now able to download, and its working.

You can just swipe..app still not working and freezes the phone when tapped on a video.

Its not working on my Lumia 620,it got crashed several times & made my mobile hanged....i have to close the app by long pressing back button & swiping down.worst experience

Its beta !! You waited for years !! wait some more time :) Between in 620 its working flawlessly !! I played some song's it worked and video little lagging.. Oh Come on its in beta stage :D You can not expect a new born baby to walk :D

I had no other option than uninstalling it. Every single time crashed even phone hanged twice.

Mkv file not supported

Do not install, vlc block's phone...

Lot of bugs defects...piece of shit..app is crashing whenever i wana open it i can't even play a single song..fix it

When open then crash vlc

It's a crashed up soft. Though

Figured. Too buggy to be final release.

Cheap Trick's covers of the Beatles' stuff is awesome.

Not ready for prime time. All it does is freeze. Uninstalled.

Why this is so hard to download the app? Please give me the tips

It is not installing in my 720, after pressing install icon the download is in pending condition only. I've restarted the phone also but still it is in the same condition...

TIL VLC is Versatile media player.

Uninstalled. On 930 is like a timelapse to play anything from cameraroll.

Wow. It doesn't play video, music or streams... Have they only worked on the layout all those years?

if i try to open any video in VLC the phone hangs.....(lumia 920 8.1)

From what I see in this version although it's just beta .. This is going to be a kickass app!! I just love it and I can't wait for the final release

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.....what big was the hype of VLC comming to WP. What great was the expectations from VLC. And what we got......total scrap. Now, its proved that all companies/developers don't take us seriously. So, guys I request you, henceforth pls do not raise your expectations for whatever is coming, whether its app or os update (denim or 10).

Unable to download the app.. :(

I was desperately waiting not for this CRAP! There can be another article prepared about the BUGS this app have, for now(i guess)...

Unable to download the app

App is crashing as I start.

I have moli player..and its work well..bt it suck at zooming.. :/

Horrible

Does it support subtitles?

Is it only me who cant get to download the app from the store or there is an issue with the store ?

OH MY GOD! THIS IS TERRIBLE.

Just because I paid for moliplayer recently...

Not working

I'm using lumia1020...but when I try to download vlc..it shows pending and not downloading!!!.....plz help me

Oopz

Even download allso not working

I did get it to download. I opened it once and never got it to play anything, but it allowed me to browse the menus. Now it won't open at all, or only for a second, the it crashes. I await the fixes with a hopeful attitude.

This is a complete joke. If it wasn't meant to be released yet, then how did this crap made it to the store? I mean, they accidentally pressed a button and...oops? I think we WP users are getting trolled costantly and i can't take this shit anymore.    

Didn't open in my Lumia 520...please update and fix it..totally LOL app...

Not showing album art and not working videos properly. No audio settings like equlizer.
But the same version of android phone had an eq but..
Pls improve videolabs team..pls...pks

And now its been removed!

Please fix it soon...its not work properly in any windows phone like Lumia 1520,1320,930,820,720,625,620,535.530,525,520 ect..

Pity! It's probaby why when I search VLC for Windows Phone in Store, a bunch of other stuff comes up first like Stick Hero Wp, Sudoku, etc. And guess where the real app is, 40 something down the line. Go figure! Yes, a lot of apps are now finally here on WP platform, but the quality is nowhere near the equivelant on Android and iOS. I don't understand given the same app has already been through the development phase twice and become quite mature from functionality to stability on other mobile platforms, why does it need to go through all these problems again on WP. Didn't Microsoft say it is very easy to port Android app onto WP. It is increasingly convincing to me the only way to become first class citizen in the mobile world unfortunatly is to stick to the majorities.

Not downloading in my Lumia 720..

There is an update already

Crap, freezes my phone. Is there something like testing before putting into production?....

Man its not available in store

Useless its worst than alpha

Most of people usess easy way to android to make apps
When they have skill to show they just shit and made this app

Just got an update but is still not working...

Rubbish

Helo download q nhi ho raha hai

UI needs to improve big time. Other than that it's promising.

I have lots of expectations from VLC player for Windows. I know it is still a beta version but it can't even play 720p videos that should be fixed. The basic functionality should be fixed before making it available to public.

It still in beta version .. And crashes so much......

VLC was working great until the last update, now when I select a video to watch VLC just crashes and closes. Happens no matter which video I select. The app just will not play videos since the recent update. Fail!