vlc4iphone released

[jcde7ago]

vlc4iphone has been released by Zod, and is now available through Cydia! Just dl'ed and will test it out. Via Zod's blog:

"I have spent today working on vlc4iphone. When it comes to performance mplayer wins, but it seems some people still like the feature set vlc4iphone has. These features include the ability to stream video (such as TV) and audio content from a PC to the iPhone. It even has a ShoutCast internet radio browser & player!

vlc4iphone v1.6.0 is now available publicly on Cydia in the Multimedia section. As ZodTTD.com is a pre-installed repo of Cydia, you're ready to go. So check it out!

In this release I have fixed many bugs, including the dreaded bug that caused many people not to see video in the last beta release. Some codecs (RTMP for instance) are still missing, and depending on the demand for them, I will add them and update to a later VLC version as well.

The only drawback is performance of videos of resolutions of 640x480 or greater. What I've done is lowered the decoding resolution of many formats of video at this resolution so now you are able to be play them at decent speeds. The quality of the picture suffers however. I suggest users of vlc4iphone to use videos of 320x240 resolution if possible.

Source code is currently available here. A huge thanks to the VideoLAN team for their support and great software.

Thanks,
ZodTTD "

Could be a good thing that i chose to hold out on buying Orb Live....but we'll see ;-)

[Mes]

I love being able to browse to any folder ... that's the good part. But I just tried to play a movie clip that works smoothly with AirSharing and the the iPod Movie interface section (sync'd w/iTunes). Not good, not smooth. My clip is only 20 seconds long, formatted for the iPhone, and breaks up many times / second. Wonder if it's all those adds.

[z3r01]

sweeeeeeettt gonna go get it now

[Iman07]

ya i tried this app yesterday and it sucks. no offense to zottd but none of my media would play. they are all formatted correctly but still no go. i duno, but im waiting for pwnplayer. thats gonna rock. theres already hundreds of radio apps, we dont need another one.

[mgamber]

At this point you're probably better off getting Orb and streaming. This thing barely works on the best of days. As usual, you get what you pay for.