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VLC Media Player to be Released on iPod
VLC Media Player to be Released on iPod
The open source VLC Media Player has been tweaked to run on iPod by software developer Applidium.
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18/09/2010
VLC – famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file one cares to throw at it – should appear in iPod some time this week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple.
The open source VLC Media Player has been tweaked to run on iPod by software developer Applidium. The outfit says the download will be free, and that patches will be passed back into the main VLC tree allowing others to create iPod software based on VLC's code.
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