VLC brings its feature-rich video player to Chrome OS
Considered the Swiss Army Knife video players, VLC is available on a plethora of different mobile and desktop platforms. However, the app has proved elusive on Google’s Chrome OS. The web-orientated operating system isn’t really known for its media abilities, but the VideoLAN team have managed to tick it off their list, allowing users to open a wide array of video and audio files, including MKV containers, ISOs, MP3s, FLAC formats. There’s also support for subtitles, network streaming and hardware accelerated decoding.
The app was made possible by Google’s App Runtime for Chrome (ARC), which allows developers to repurpose Android apps to work on Chrome OS and other platforms. The team says it was able to “recycle 95 percent of the Android code and optimizations” it utilizes in its existing Android app. While VLC for Chrome OS has been tested on a Chromebook Pixel and an HP Chromebook 14, some users have reported issues on Samsung Chromebooks. If it doesn’t work for you, VideoLAN’s Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the team will work quickly to fix bugs, so be patient.
Via: VideoLAN
Source: VLC (Chome Web Store)
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