And an app that I will, once again, install on all of my PCs going forward. And nothing in VLC’s release notes says anything about battery. There’s no way to know how or if VLC changes that dynamic, but it’s something to think about if you’re using a portable PC on battery power. The one unknown here is battery life: Whatever you think of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) generally, or Movies & TV specifically, it’s going to give you the best battery life. Also note that VLC is available across a wide range of platforms, including Windows XP or newer, macOS 10.7 or newer, iOS 7 or newer, Android 2.3 or newer, Android TV, Chromebooks with Android support, Linux, and others. There’s a lot more, but those are the big ones. Scalable UI that finally looks right on high DPI displays.VLC 3 finally supports high DPI displays seamlessly
And this release is a big deal, one that addresses my complaints and adds some other great new features. This week, VideoLAN shipped VLC 3.0, a major update to its video player. Previous VLC versions did not scale well on high DPI displays And worse, VLC, while excellent, never adapted to the high DPI displays that are common now on the PCs I travel with. First, Microsoft’s built-in video app, now called Movies & TV, improved to the point where it offered everything I needed, including support for subtitles and captioning. And that’s true whether you were talking about legacy apps like Windows Media Player or newer attempts like Videos/Zune Video, which debuted in Windows 8.īut two things changed to make VLC less useful to me. The reasoning here is simple enough: Microsoft’s built-in apps were simply too unsophisticated. Enough so that even casual users may want to go to the trouble of installing and using the new version of the app.įor years, VLC was part of the default set of apps that I installed on every PC.
In its latest incarnation, the VLC media player addresses some long-standing complaints and adds some killer new features.
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