VLC for Apple TV has arrived with great new features

The advent of VLC for the Apple TV is only possible due to Apple’s decision to allow third-party app downloads for the latest Apple TV via the new tvOS App Store. You can browse through videos with the Siri Remote and select content for playback.

– Saved Logins: Login credentials can be securely stored on the Apple TV and will be synchronized to and from your iPhone and iPad. By the middle of November, VLC for Apple TV was being tested with beta testers on TestFlight, and a “huge amount of feedback” helped shape the final product.

You can also paste in multiple URLs, to similarly queue them up for playback.

Of course, the biggest problem with storing your own videos on the Apple TV is that it’s kind of hard to do so, especially if they’re file formats that the Apple TV doesn’t support.

Other notable features include navigation by chapters, text and bitmap subtitles with full right-to-left language support, all the expected regular playback features, integration with OpenSubtitles.org, the inclusion of artist bios and imagery, support for Plex/FTP/UPnP/SMB, and Remote Playback for “casting” content from a PC.

One of those new apps is the VLC Apple TV app, which was announced shortly after the new Apple TV was unveiled, but it officially released today, allowing users to play all sorts of video files that the Apple TV wouldn’t normally be able to play.

Considered to be the Swiss Army Knife of media players, VLC is open source and widely used as the go-to media option for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux desktop computers. VLC says it plans on adding more user-friendly services soon, including Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box, all of which are now in testing. The app let you change playback speed, view album art, and much more. The feature will be available in the near future.