Excellent news for Jailbroken iPhone owners: VLC media player has been successfully ported to the iPhone and iPod Touch. No longer will you have to endure the tedious transformation of an AVI into an MP4 to watch movies on the go: you can simply drag and drop MPEG, AVI and MP3s onto your iPhone and away you go, with support for VCD, DivX, FLAC, OGG, WMA and WMV forthcoming.
Still, I’m only posting this for the picture of the bulldog riding the skateboard. Man, that dog really does get into some amazing adventures.
VLC Media Player for iPhone [Zottd via Gizmodo]
still makes me giggle every time i see an article about an iphone app that needs to be jailbroken for it to run…
MS did the exact same thing a decade ago with windows mobile and was forced to admit it was a stupid idea and gave up on application locking.
Why is Apple near universally hailed as being innovative despite using the same failed idea that their direct competitor gave up on as a silly idea a decade previous?
wow, i may acctually get an ipod touch now.
This is pretty cool. Has anyone commenting here tried running this yet? An important question is: Is the iPhone beefy enough to run h264 content at native resolution? My N800 runs mplayer and vlc, but neither its video buffer or CPU are good enough to play video at native res(800×480).
Doggie… so… cute… must… resist… urge… to… buy…
#3: The iPhone is pretty hefty hardware-wise. 412 MHz CPU (underclocked from its stock 600 MHz), plus 3D acceleration, and hardware h264 decoding. That being said, the iPhone’s screen resolution is only 320×480.
1: Because Apple hands out rose-colored glasses with every purchase.
I hope this gives me the ability to watch the live NASA TV stream on my iPod Touch now. I use VLC to watch it on my PC, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t work! Lord, I hope so, that would be schweet.