VLC for Mobile is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion. It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web. VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, and playback speed control.

Features

  • Play all files, in all formats, including exotic ones, like classic VLC media player.
  • Play MKV, multiple audio tracks (including 5.1), and subtitles tracks (including SSA!).
  • Support for network streams, including HLS, MMS or RTSP.
  • Include video filters, playback speed manipulation, and fine seeking.
  • A video media library, with WiFi Upload, Dropbox integration and optional passcode lock.
  • Integration for bluetooth headsets and AirPlay.
  • Supports iOS 5.1 or later including the first iPad.
  • Completely free, libre and open source.

Requirements:

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple TV.

What's New

  • * Add a radio station discovery service so users can find and favorite their stations
  • Add swipe-to-favorite while browsing, including for non-downloadable streams
  • CarPlay: browse by album and folder, show artist names and add a Library section
  • Add WebDAV support
  • Disable SMBv1 by default
  • Improve Spotlight search by indexing more media metadata
  • WiFi Sharing: fix the option to disable the server
  • Player: redesigned track selector interface
  • Player: switch to the audio interface for audio-only network streams
  • Player: indicate live streams without a known duration
  • Add Frame-by-Frame playback, forward and backward
  • Mini player: redesigned for the liquid glass appearance
  • Reworked buffering indicator for video and audio playback
  • Export playlists as M3U
  • Playback history: allow clearing individual categories
  • Add new playback history feature
  • Remember playback position and state for media on network servers and external devices
  • Cache generated artwork for external media
  • Add Siri integration to control playback in VLC and access locally stored media
  • Allow folders on remote shares to be marked as favorites
  • Add support for external subtitles and audio tracks
  • Improve playback speed configuration for the audio player
  • Allow deleting local media during search
  • Show playlist durations in list view

Previous release notes

  • Add views for artists, albums and episodes to the media library
  • Add more options to sort the media library
  • Add support for bookmarks
  • Improve shuffle algorithm for playback
  • Indicate currently playing media in library
  • Major update to internal event handling
  • Performance improvements
  • Add Handoff support for WiFi Sharing
  • Add option to configure seek duration
  • Rewritten OneDrive support
  • Updated UPnP support
  • Major adaptive streaming update, notably for multiple timelies and webvtt
  • Add support for DVBSub inside MKV
  • Fix some Flac files that could not be played
  • Improve seeking in Ogg and fragmented MP4 files
  • Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
  • Fix playback of live AV1 streams
  • Fix crashes with VP9 streams

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