VLC Media Player Maybe Coming To Xbox One According To Team's Programmer

VLC Media player is a popular free media player that is nearly used by everyone these days. Sporting a lightweight size along with the ability to playback almost all the media formats, VLC Media Player has become one of the fastest and best media players.

[Snookies12]

Ah man... I'd love for this to be on all next-gen consoles. VLC is the only media player I use.

[ABizzel1]

@Snookies12

Agreed, love VLC. This could be another direction MS takes the XBO to help give it a strong differentiator from the PS4 by making it more and more like a standard desktop / tablet with a huge variety of apps and programs that are normally exclusive to PC / tablets.

It wouldn't be the strongest selling point if you already have those devices, but it will provide tons of usefulness for the XBO.

[Morpheuzpr]

XBMC is were it's at. I stopped using VLC a long time ago.

[Excalibur]

Good news as that is one of the players I use, just give us the ability to pin these as well.

[IcicleTrepan]

This would be awesome

[Drewidian]

This is why I'm really excited about the Xbox One. Now there could be a flood of really good apps that add features and capabilities that Microsoft didn't have to develop. For example there is no System Video player on the Xbox One, but if VLC comes to it, it should be able to not only play .wmv and .avi files, but should be able to play .mkv files and access shares on my computer. That is what I've been really waiting to have in my living room.

I like what I see with the PS4, but it will never have the depth of apps that will be available as the Xbox One if MS truly is planning for Apps for Windows being able to run on the One. Time will tell if this has an impact on sales but it holds an unprecedented set of capabilities for the livingroom.

[B1uBurneR]

Whoa! I hope there is tissue near by when you're done. You might have to wipe your screen off to see this reply. Both system are made to support apps to future proof the system. To say ps4 will never have the depth of apps is second guessing the competition. . What if Sony decides to have exclusive contracts with other companies or apps devs, better yet look at the twitch situation where MS will add it after their competitors. Then in those cases your comment would sound like extreme fanboy-ism gets you off?

[Nocando]

That didnt take long, shocker that a sony defender comes screaming in.

[Drewidian]

Let's look at this objectively ok? I'm not saying that the PS4 won't have apps, but that it (in all likelihood) will not have the depth or breadth of apps that MS will simply because it seems that the Xbox One will run modified Windows 8.x Apps. Sony doesn't have an ecosystem that easily ports apps from say mobile or desktop to the PS4 the way the Xbox One will have access to the Windows unified store. And I'm not a fanboy. I did say that I like that some things about the PS4, its just that its app situation looks like what it is between the Xbox 360 and PS3. The 360 has at least twice as many apps. Does that make a difference for gaming, no, but that might be different this generation.

[christocolus]

Drediwian never said the ps4 wouldnt get many apps too i think what he was trying to say is that with ms owning windows and the multitude of apps on that platform ,its just going to be easy porting them over to the xbx one and thats an advantage for ms and the xbx one...there will be apps unique to the xbx one but there will also be loads of apps ported to the console from pc just because of the ease.

[stiggs]

@B1uBurneR

Calm down, Spaz.

[hankmoody]

Only time will tell but I'm certainly hoping that this is the case. I personally don't see the PS4 growing in the future the way the XB1 seems poised to do. I could be wrong but this is just how it looks to me at this stage.

[LAWSON72]

It will never have the depth of apps. What? You mean how both last gen systems had absolutely no app support at all yet managed to get the functionality. Also, just to note the PS3s Netflix app is very good and easily better then the 360 app. The PS4 is also far from not being able to have depth apps, whatever the hell that is. The HW the system has is very much capable if the software is improved.

[B1uBurneR]

Your wrong about the ps3 netflix being better than the 360 version. Netflix has the same layout and across both Systems. Netflix wants the same layout across all system. The 360 also includes voice navigation via kinect. .

[BigShotSmoov007]

I would love that cause that's the only media player I use. Windows players don't play all format types like VLC does.

[Ratty]

Or doesn't play it as well. VLC is also much lighter. At least that was the case the last time I used Windows Media Player ;p

[123pol]

this is about as useful as VLC on IOS.

[Blaze929]

LOL having actually tried that app on iOS, i had to laugh because it is, bad.

[LAWSON72]

Well if they have MKV support I would be all for it on all consoles. It seems pointless but if you think about VLC has tons of great features like picking audio and subtitles if there are multiple in the video

[curtis92]

Props to MS if they let this app go on XB1.

[EL Lanf]

I'm going to be the video elitist here and say it's not all that great. Sure, compared to WMP, it will actually play files but so can many other players out there.

VLC's GUI is alright but the under the bonnet stuff is still mediocre and never has been all that good. Getting a good render such as MAD-VR on MPC-HC has much better video quality.

http://screenshotcomparison...

[deepio]

You'll really need that external HDD support for VLC to be useful. When is that coming?

[KillerByte23]

External Hard Drive support will be getting added in a future dashboard update in 2014

[LAWSON72]

Or just use DLNA

[deepio]

True!

[WeAreLegion]

Please add it to both systems. I love watching Rifftrax VOD.

[KillerByte23]

It would be better if we had a XMBC app, but I don't know if Microsoft will allow that on the Xbox One

[GutZ31]

If MS let xbmc onto there system, it would be a very bad move for them, but awesome for users.

[christocolus]

Nice...

[Dark_Overlord]

Whilst VLC's compatibility with files is great, its rendering is pretty damn horrendous at times. I personally use a combination of BSPlayer, GOM player, and Media Player Classic, all IMO better than VLC :)