The makers of the popular open source, cross-platform media player VLC launched a non-beta version of the app [removed] in the Google Play Store. The beta version appeared in July of 2014, and ...

The Android port of VLC, the venerable multimedia player for mobile, suffered from an odd limitation until recently: North American users were blocked from installing the app through Google Play ...

The VLC for Android beta is finally available to install from the Play Store if you live in the U.S. or Canada. The app has been available to the rest of ...

Some newer Huawei phones are actively being blocked from installing the open-source VLC media player app from Google Play. VLC’s developers announced that they’re blacklisting some of Huawei ...

So much so, that you can no longer grab the ever-popular, feature-packed VLC media player app from the Google Play Store on Huawei smartphones—VideoLAN’s nuclear option.

The VLC 3.3 update for Android has now dropped on the Google Play Store with a multitude of UI tweaks and enhancements that will make the utility-knife media player even more of a smartphone ...

The VLC app can still be loaded as an APK on affected devices, but until Huawei changes how it treats background activities, users likely won’t be able to download it from Google Play anymore.

VLC For Android has finally surpassed the 100 million downloads mark for Android’s Google Play Store. The media player has always been a popular choice for video playback on PCs and laptops, so ...

VideoLAN seems to have lifted the ban on Huawei handsets as the VLC app is apparently available for download again for those phones. It blocked Huawei last year for its background app killing policy.

VideoLAN, a nonprofit that builds open-source media player software, says it's blocking Huawei phones from downloading its free VLC for Android app from the Google Play Store. The decision came in ...

Finally, VLC 2.0 for Android now lets you disable the history feature, the Android TV interface has been improved, and there's better support for complex text layout and right-to-left subtitles.

So far, the plan is to drop older operating system versions (Windows XP, Windows Vista, macOS 10.7, macOS 10.8, Android 2.x, and Android 3.0 Honeycomb), which Kempf notes means that VLC 3.0 is a ...