VLC Jumps Into Chrome OS

Features of VLC for Chrome OS will include the support for all video files like MKV and DVD ISOs, in addition to audio files such as FLAC and other kinds of audio formats.

VLC is a popular media player solution that covers a wide range of different media types, and it works well, which are both prominent reasons why it has become a popular choice for those looking to play their movies or TV shows from their own personal digital library. This media player is now available for OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS/2, ReactOS and Haiku/BeOS. With any other operating system, VLC is a native, downloadable app or program that can be installed, which isn’t the case for Chrome OS devices. That’s because this is basically a port of the Android version of the app, made using the tools that Google makes available for porting Android apps to Chrome OS. It can be picked up on the Chrome Web Store. Google provides ARC in hopes that developers will bring their Android apps to Chrome OS, which has far fewer titles than Android.

Mr. Kempf added that the ARC solution helped to recycling 95% of Android optimizations and code in last month.

If you have been scared off by lack of video playback options in Chrome OS previously, it’s time to revisit that.

The company’s experts said that the software was analyzed while running on the HP Chromebook and Chromebook Pixel, so remember that they may need a while to remove bugs usually found in the other gadgets working on Chrome OS.

The latest example? Now you can run a version of the popular VLC media player on a Chromebook or Chromebox. The source codes are certified under GPL and are now allocated as GPLv3, similar to the VLC application for Android.