After successfully finishing the Kickstarter campaign with a back in December last year, VideoLAN has released the first beta version of the VLC media player in the Windows Store. It can play all the video and audio files, similar to the desktop version. It currently supports x86 and x64 platforms, but it would soon be available for ARM-based tablets running Windows RT, VideoLAN promised last year.
Since it needs to cross-compile the libVLC library for Windows RT, it will take time, the company said on their Kickstarter page, where they raised 47,056 GBP, more than their goal of 40,000 GBP.
It can also play content from external storage, streams and discs. It also supports subtitles. It can’t play them automatically, but you can side-load them when you playing a video. It has neat and clean interface and is easy to navigate.
Since the app is still in beta, so there might be some bugs. More features would be added in future releases.
Download VLC for Windows 8 from the Windows Store