VLC for Mobile App Reviews

This is a very good alternative to iPhones new TV app. It is responsive, sharp, and packed with practical features. I can drag literally any video format into it and it supports it. Very easy to manage and use.

Couldnt connect with Samba/SMB, followed by a constantly crashing app, didnt even have a chance to try playing anything. The desktop version is unbelievably great; this app is the complete opposite. Despite the blast, I still mean it when I say thanks for making this!

I wish the scrubbing was less jumpy, and that we had the ability to put in numerical values for offset/delay. Please add that.

What a amazing video player it is! I really loved this player! Please, keep update!

The app supports various cloud services to transfer your music and video files, but it only does that one file at a time. So if you want to download a full album from, say, iCloud Drive - you have to navigate to the folder and file, download one file, then do it all over again for every file, dozens of time. Why cant it download all selected files in one go is a mystery.

I cant change the name of the songs. Other than that its a great app!

Simple and just as good as the PC version. All it needs is a built in web browser and image support and folders.

Plays everything I can throw at it.

1. Other media player apps will read an iOS devices media library. Not VLC - requires a cumbersome separate upload step in iTunes that often results in errors. 2. If you are lucky enough to get a successful upload, the app will crash while attempting to play MP4 files. Fail. Uninstalled.

Good

The good and the bad! If they change the bad, Ill give 5-stars The good: - play speed adjustable - play many file types - file transfer and stream capable The bad: - the biggest thing is that you cannot organize Subfolders ---you can save media files in the app, and create folders. BUT you cannot organize within subfolders, which is a huge disorganization - the apps functionality is sorely disorganized too... most apps that allow you to change speed will allow you to slide your finger up to increase speed, this app changes brightness and volume with the slide function (I have a volume button, I dont need a special gesture for that). - when I try to open my google drive folder, its a mess. It doesnt show even half of my drive folders and there is no search function - lastly, Id really like to just have a web browsers that allows me to change video speeds on iPhone, but I cant find that, so Im resorting to other options (download and export to phone)... would be great if VLC either had a built-in browser OR integrated with other mobile browsers like safari or chrome.

You are the best, keep going..

Apple has updated the TV app so you must be connected to the Internet to play video files that exist natively on your device. I have thus turned to VLC. I use the iTunes interface to move video files over, and I like not having to convert the files first. However, organizing the files is a chore. I must import each TV shows season in a single batch, then go to the VLC interface, create a folder, and move the files to the new folder. Strangely, the files always appear in reverse order. This is a hassle, because one feature of the VLC app is that, unlike the Apple TV app, it will play one file after the other. Because the order cannot be altered by a filter, I have negotiated this by numbering the files in reverse. They then stack in the correct order within the VLC interface. It is possible to move the files around manually by dragging them, but most of the time, this does not work. It is not possible to assign folders within the iTunes interface. The app has a media library interface, but I cannot figure out how it works. I cannot assign files to the TV Shows category. I must view them in All Files. The files play very well, and I have had no trouble with MP4, MKV, and AVI files. I appreciate the tap to pause gesture. Those with a lot of media may have trouble organizing it, but it works very well as a player. I am hopeful that a future update will permit filtering in numerical or alphabetical order, instead of defaulting to reverse order.

• GUI design is illogical, unintuitive, inconsistent, unhelpful, and breaks so many standard GUI conventions (but I guess were now firmly in the era where good GUI design is considered irrelevant). • Crashes when iPad wakes up, if media is loaded and paused. Seriously, did the developers even test what happens when the media is paused and the device sleeps?? This is the most common scenario on a iOS device! • Crashes when multitasking away from app and back while media is paused. • Audio drops for a couple seconds after changing playback position, unpausing, etc. • Audio drops out spontaneously for no known reason. • Video decoding gets corrupted during playback (video turns into a mess of grey/white junk and slowly bleeds back to normal). No solution but to close and restart. • Network browsing doesnt work (at least not to Windows 10 Pro machines on the local network). Must use IP address to get a usable connection. • Folders not correctly alphabetized (numbered folder titles are in "lazy programmers order", not natural English order). The good things? Well, it does let me stream media from my computer, across my network, and play them on my iPad Pro. So, it technically works... But its overall a lousy piece of software (as is so much software, especially freeware and open source junk).

Read the title. Thanks.

Unable to connect this to box. App is buggy and stalls. Otherwise a great concept work in progress.

Works great so far. I can connect to OneDrive to watch my videos or download them for offline viewing. It remembers your place in the video and lets you adjust audio and subtitle sync. Simple clear interface. Thanks for a great app!

A folder of videos copied to the app via iTunes is not kept in that folder. All of the videos show up at the root level of the VLC app. You have to manually re-create the folder and drag videos to the folder, one by one. It would also be nice to be able to select multiple videos at once and move them to a folder.

Its nice that VLC is available on iOS - that we have a choice from the open source world to just play back media files without worrying about all the tracking and "matching" and other nonsense that the major media players do. But this player is just broken. It cant show your current position in a track reliably (even a basic MP3). Trying to skip around is impossible as a consequence. The play/pause button doesnt play/pause much of the time. Meanwhile the player has power-user only features like finely-tuned audio delays. The app should remove that stuff until it can just get the basics right.

Shuts down every time I try to play my file