Google's Chrome OS Finally Gets VLC Media Player

Well known media player VLC is currently at long last accessible for Chrome OS-fueled scratch pad. VideoLAN, the open source venture behind it, noticed that the free application is a ported form of its Android partner. You can download the application from the Chrome Web Store.

Much like its customer on different stages, VLC for Chrome OS bolsters an expansive pool of video and sound records including mkv, DVD iso, flac, and different organizations. The player additionally underpins subtitles with auto-recognition, and offers playback of streams, nearby and on the Internet.

JB Kempf, one of the engineers of VLC, noticed that it wasn't a simple undertaking to make VLC, which is for the most part based on C and C++, for Chrome OS as the stage requires writing in JavaScript and other Web advancements. Be that as it may, Google's choice to bolster Android Runtime for Chrome not long ago, empowered porting Android applications to Chrome OS. A year ago, Google likewise empowered logged off media playback for Chromebook scratch pad.

"For ChromeOS, the main arrangement we saw, before ARC was declared, was utilizing PPAPI, NaCL and Javascript, yet that would require to revise a complete interface in Javascript and would be a touch tricky for the database," Kempf wrote in a blog entry.

"That work would have taken months of work. In this manner the ARC arrangement was a gift, and helped us to reuse 95 percent of the Android code and improvements we did in the most recent months (some are not discharged yet)," he included.

Kempf composed that the customer works with Chromebook Pixel and HP Chromebook 14, two well known Chromebook journals. VLC for Chrome OS, be that as it may, hasn't been tried on the Asus Chromebit, subsequently it is not clear whether it would chip away at it or not.