Felix Paul Kühne

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VLC for iOS 4.0 — third public beta

Podcasts and a new On Air tab, a redesigned browsing interface, Siri and Spotlight playback, alarms for radio stations and a long list of crash fixes.

Aug 6, 2026

VLC for iOS 4.0 — second public beta

A radio station discovery service, CarPlay album and folder browsing, WebDAV support, frame-by-frame playback and a redesigned track selector.

Jul 16, 2026

VLC for iOS 4.0 — first public beta

The first public beta of VLC for iOS 4.0 is here, and it’s the largest update the app has seen in years. It spans iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. A new engine underneath The headline change is invisible at first glance: the whole app now sits on a pre-release build of libVLC 4 . That means a new clock implementation, a rewritten player and a new playlist core. This is the foundation for most of the…

Jun 24, 2026

VLC media player for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS version 3.3

After a long time, I have exciting things to share! VLC media player for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV is receiving a major update on the App Store today. As always, it is completely free of charge in all countries and the source code is here . We spent a bit of effort to bring the update to iOS 9 as there seem to be many people still using the 2nd generation iPad or the original iPad mini…

Mar 21, 2022

MobileVLCKit and VLCKit, part 3

This is part of an article series covering VLC’s Objective-C framework, which we provide to allow inclusion of all its features in third party applications as well as VLC for iOS and Apple TV. Previously published: Part 1: What is VLCKit and how does it work? How to use it? Part 2: Metadata handling. Today, we will discuss thumbnailing of video content. We need to differenciate two key…

Mar 13, 2018

VLCKit 3.0

10 days ago, we published VLC media player 3.0 for all platforms. It’s the first major release in three years and brings a huge number of features, improvements and fixes. Get an overview here and the full changelog there . For VLCKit, we improved performance and memory management, added new APIs and you get all improvements from the underlying libvlc including full support for decoding H264…

Feb 19, 2018

Sample Page

This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a…

Jan 15, 2018

Sample Page

Jan 19, 2016

Announcing VLC for Apple TV

Today, we are proud to announce VLC on the Apple TV. It’s a full port of VLC media player combined with platform specific features. VLC for Apple TV integrates with a plethora of devices and services on your local network and includes a custom way of casting files directly to the TV from your other computers using a web browser! Background Immediately after Apple announced the future of…

Jan 12, 2016

VLC for iOS, version 2.7.0

Today, we will release a new major version of VLC for iOS. Note that due to adapted review guidelines, it is branded “VLC for Mobile” on the iOS App Store now. We have been working on this update for the last few months, so it adds a lot of features: full iOS 9 support incl. split screen and iPad Pro re-written Apple Watch app for watchOS 2 system-wide search for content stored locally…

Dec 22, 2015

VLC for iOS, version 2.6.0

Today, we will release version 2.6.0 of VLC for iOS adding support for Apple Watch. With Apple Watch, you can fully control VLC on iPhone, browse the library and retrieve info about stored or playing media items. Since playback control using Apple Watch allows you to start playback while the app is in background, we took the occasion to completely rework the playback process which culminated in…

Jun 30, 2015

VLC for iOS 2.5.0

Today, we released version 2.5.0 of VLC for iOS with a strong focus on cloud integration. We added support for iCloud Drive, box.com and OneDrive. As part of iCloud Drive, you can have access to any cloud storage enabled app on iOS 8 and later. For box.com and OneDrive, we added native support, which allows us direct streaming from the cloud without having the user download a media first.

Mar 27, 2015

VLC for iOS 2.4.0 & 2.4.1

After a 5 month hiatus and a couple of delays in between, we are very happy to release version 2.4.1 of VLC for iOS to the general public today. Please see our press release for cross-platform information. As an introductory remark, make sure to get the legitimate version of VLC. There are a number of clones on the iOS App Store right now, which violate both our copyright and our trademarks,…

Feb 27, 2015

VLC media player for Mac OS X 2.2.0

Today, we will also a major new version of VLC for Mac OS X. For cross-platform changes, please have a look at the release notes and our press release . What’s new in VLC for Mac? Support for OS X Yosemite Completely re-written web plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox is back! Improved fullscreen behavior Continue playback where you left off Improved playlist adding a file size column and an…

Feb 27, 2015

MobileVLCKit and VLCKit, part 2

This is part of an article series covering VLC’s Objective-C framework, which we provide to allow inclusion of all its features in third party applications as well as VLC for iOS and Apple TV. Currently published: Part 1: What is VLCKit and how does it work? How to use it? Part 3: snapshots and thumbnailing Today, we will discuss meta data processing. In VLCKit, every item you play is a…

Feb 18, 2015

MobileVLCKit and VLCKit, part 1

This is part of an article series covering VLC’s Objective-C framework, which we provide to allow inclusion of all its features in third party applications as well as VLC for iOS and Apple TV. Currently published: Part 2: Metadata handling. Part 3: Snapshots and thumbnailing VLCKit is a generic library for any audio or video playback needs on both Apple platforms and also supports streaming…

Dec 2, 2014

upnpx 1.3.0

When I started to work on VLC for iOS last summer, it quickly became apparent that it would need to support playback from local media servers announced over the UPnP protocol. I came across a Objective-C++ library named upnpx which suited my use case nicely and which included broad support for all the various UPnP dialects. Regrettably, upnpx was not maintained anymore since a few months, so I…

Oct 20, 2014

VLC media player for Mac OS X, versions 2.1.4 and 2.0.10

Today, we released 2 versions of VLC media player for Mac OS X targeting different client systems. Version 2.1.4 This is a small bug fix release, which improves an important regression regarding DVD playback and improves compatibility with HUffYUV contents by upgrading the respective decoder library. Additionally, a rare issue with some specifically crafted wmv files was fixed and a misleading…

Feb 21, 2014

VLC for iOS, version 2.2.1

Today, we released a small update of VLC for iOS. It solves the most important regressions in last week’s 2.2 major release , but also includes a major improvement: full initial support of 64bit aka AArch64 aka arm64 on late 2013’s iPhone and iPad thanks to a close collaboration with the libav team . Additionally, we added enhanced support for a broader set of UPnP servers, notably…

Feb 6, 2014

VLC for iOS, version 2.2

Today, we published version 2.2 of VLC for iOS on the App Store . It features a re-designed interface for iOS 7, which we demonstrated in early November last year . Since then, we took the time for further improvements, polishing and most importantly adding features in addition a plain restyling. Notably, we added the following: Google Drive integration and Dropbox streaming, New multitouch…

Jan 20, 2014

VLC 2.1

Today, we published VLC media player 2.1.1 for all major desktop operating systems. If you used VLC for Android or for iOS in the last couple of months, you already got in touch with VLC’s 2.1 code base. VLC media player 2.1 was initially published on September 26. However, we didn’t enable VLC’s internal updater since then. Why? We spent extra time on polishing the release,…

Nov 14, 2013

VLC for iOS 7, preview

Over the last weeks, I worked closely with Damien Erambert on VLC’s user interface on iOS, rethinking it for iOS 7. I would like to share a small preview today with further iterations pending. Version 2.2 of VLC for iOS will also include various new features and refinements. More on that, at a later point. Any feedback and remarks are strongly welcome.

Nov 4, 2013

VLC for iOS, version 2.1

About 8 weeks passed since the initial re-release of VLC for iOS based upon its entirely re-written code base. Its success outperformed our expectations with more than 2.5 million downloads during the first week. Wow! For the first major update, we listed carefully to the feedback received on the App Stores and through others channels. It adds the following features and improvements: Improved…

Sep 6, 2013

VLC for iOS 2.0

So there we are. We have come a long way. Today, it’s my pleasure to announce that VLC for iOS is back on the App Store. It’s available free of charge in any country, requires iOS 5.1 or later and runs on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. This is more than an upgrade of the initial version: it’s a full re-write. From the ground-up. Relying on the power of MobileVLCKit and its underlying libvlc, we…

Jul 18, 2013

VLC 2.0.7 out now

Today, we published VLC 2.0.7. This is an important update to VLC’s 2.0 series, which improves the overall stability, fixes minor annoyances and solves certain security implications. It will be available through the internal updater on Mac OS X later today and is already live on our main website for manual downloads. The in-app announcement on Windows will be enabled as soon as the load on our…

Jun 10, 2013

VideoLAN at Akademy 2013, Bilbao

Members of the VideoLAN team and our friends from Tomahawk will attend our favorite summer geek conference: Akademy . This year, it’s in Bilbao, Spain starting on July 13. In addition to the usual KDE conferencing and geeking, Qt Contributors Summit will take place at the same venue! We are looking forward to what’s new in KDE and Qt, lots of chatter and perhaps a few beers?

Jun 9, 2013

VLC 2.0.6

Today, we published VLC 2.0.6. This is an important update to VLC’s 2.0 series, which improves the overall stability, fixes minor annoyances and solves certain security implications. It will be available through the internal updater on Mac OS X later today and is already live on for manual downloads on our main website . The in-app announcement on Windows will be enabled as soon as the load…

Apr 11, 2013

VideoLAN at SCALE 11x

For the second year in a row, members of the VideoLAN team will be at the Annual Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles. This year, SCALE takes place at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel from February 22 to 24. On Saturday, Feb 23, at 1:30 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf , president of the VideoLAN organization, will give a talk about VLC in the Century CD room . On both Saturday and Sunday,…

Feb 5, 2013