VLC for Windows 8 finally passes certification

[Lance_WPCentral]

VLC team has confirmed that their app has finally passed certification in the Windows Store.

This is an extremely short update:

Our dashboad on dev.windows.com finally says:

VLC for WinRT: Release 1 passed certification.

We need to polish a few things but we'll publish soon: the major crashes seem to be gone!

We'll keep you posted.

Source : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/vlc-for-the-new-windows-8-user-experience-metro/posts/753308?at=BAh7CDoMcG9zdF9pZGkDnH4LSSIIdWlkBjoGRVRpA08xS0kiC2V4cGlyeQY7BlRJIhgyMDE0LTAzLTE5IDIwOjM2OjAxBjsGVA%3D%3D--588c663a5d6b12f5945169db1fac35b119d0254d&ref=backer_project_update

 

[hopmedic]

This is definitely good news for the platform!

 

[Kavu2]

VLC due in Store on Monday

From Microsoft-News.com

Points of interest
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VideoLAN has today confirmed via Twitter that they are planning to release VLC Player in Windows Store on Monday(03/10/2014)...

the player is still a work in progress and don?t expect all the features in the version that is coming on Monday.

Features of the v1 of this app coming on Monday,

? Support for the entire music and video library.
? Supports full touch.
? Support Snap View.
? advice on songs and artists while listening to Spotify in style.
? Ability to evaluate the tracks and put them in your favorites.
? Compatible with external devices, such as HDD and USB flash drives.
? Support for all formats of VLC classics, including MKV and FLAC.
? Support for streaming.

Features coming soon and will be absent in this first version,

? Videos can only be classified in alphabetical order.
? Subtitles and audio tracks in the video are not supported
? New algorithms for classifying video and music in an intelligent way (same genre, same TV series)
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>Cue the late great and eternally incomparable, Etta James....'At Last'

 

[hoodliedoo]

Does that mean that they are now actually paying to license the codecs that they use in their software instead of pretending that end users will?