Whooo! VLC media player, which tends to be one of the first things I install on any new system, has been ported over for use on jailbroken iPhones.
The crazy-talented ZodTTD (the guy behind snes4iphone) has released a beta version of the port, vlc4iphone, which allows for drag-and-drop playback of a number of media formats not otherwise supported on the iPhone.
Good news: It supports playback of XviD, h264, MPEG4, FLAC, 3GP, MP3, MPEG2, AVI, with more on the way.
Bad news: At the moment, its only available for ZodTTD’s beta testers.
If you’re itchin’ for it now, you can drop ZodTTD a few bucks for donor access, which happens to come with access to the beta repo. Otherwise, just wait a few days - development is going pretty quickly, so a public release probably isn’t all that far off.
For more information, check out ZodTTD’s site.
Its sad that things like this won’t work on non-jailbroken phones. As a developer, I’m pretty frustrated with Apple’s draconian control.
Comment by john jersin — June 4, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Will this all change in iPHone 2.0?
Comment by rickw — June 4, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
Things like this oughtta be plenty possible on vanilla iPhones once the App store rolls out, as long as all licenses are respected.
Comment by Greg Kumparak — June 4, 2008 @ 5:53 pm