VLC on the iPhone and iPod Touch? Yep

Posted by Karim Baz

June 9, 2008

Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Video, iPhone

iphone So this uber smart dude Zodttd, has done something pretty sweet.

He has successfully ported the popular VLC media player over to the iPhone. Yes, the iPhone.

Big deal you say? Well check out what you’ll now be able to do on your little piece of Apple mobile goodness: Drag, drop and play MPEG/MPG, AVI and MP3 media formats.

Woohooo!

Soon it will play FLAC and OGG and he’s checking out how to build support for VCD, DivX, WMA, and WMV.

You will have to break free from the jail on your iPhone to see this baby working, and it’s currently in beta.

One question though, Why aren’t these formats already supported by Apple? Aren’t we all tired of the format wars at this point? If you pay $400 or more for a device, shouldn’t you get a say in what plays on it and what doesn’t?

What do you think? Comment us up.

[via Gizmodo]