14 DAY TRIAL // The famous VLC multimedia player has just landed on Windows Phone as well and can be freely downloaded from the store on any device powered by Microsoft’s mobile platform.
VLC arrived on Windows Phone approximately one month ago in private beta form, so only a few users actually got the chance to try it out, but it appears that development has gone really fast in the last few weeks, so the final version is now up for grabs from the store.
Before giving it a shot, there’s one major thing that you need to remember: despite the fact that VLC can now be found in the Windows Phone Store, the app is still in beta development stage, so a number of bugs could still be experienced while you use it.
As VideoLAN developers note in the official listing in the store, “this is the first version of the port to Windows Phone,” so don’t be too angry if something doesn’t work as expected.
Look and feel
At first glance, VLC for Windows Phone boasts a similar look as the other versions of the app do, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out which feature is which.
The app automatically scans your phone for multimedia content, so if you have any videos or songs stored on your phone or on a microSD card, VLC automatically detects them.
VLC for Windows Phone also allows you to configure the location of videos and music, so in case the scanning process doesn’t look in the right folders, you can always point it to the exact location where your files are stored.
Configuration settings and performance
At this point, VLC for Windows Phone doesn’t provide too many configuration settings, but that’s not at all a bad thing. The app should work reasonably well from the get-go without additional tweaking, so configuration settings aren’t exactly mandatory right now.
As far as performance is concerned, VLC for Windows Phone is still in beta development stage, so a number of bugs might still exist.
We’ve already found one on our Lumia 930 testing units, as the app crashed all of a sudden after performing a search and failed to launch again until we rebooted the device. But again, this is something to be expected since it’s a beta and most of these issues are very likely to be fixed in the next few releases.
