14 DAY TRIAL // One of the applications that many Windows Phone users are eagerly waiting for on their devices is a mobile version of the VLC Media Player, and it seems that it might not be too long before the software arrives.
The team behind the app has been hard at work with porting it to the OS, and the availability of the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK preview helped a lot in this regard, it seems.
However, while the frontend of the software is said to be almost completed, the team is now looking into porting the VLC core lib to the platform, and this appears to be a bit of an issue right now.
According to a tweet coming from Thomas Nigro, a Microsoft Student Partner who works on the development of VLC for Windows Phone, the team needs actual Windows Phone 8.1 devices in order to test the app.
“App frontend is nearly ready (thanks to WP8.1 SDK Preview), but we really need test phones for porting the VLC core lib,” he said in the aforementioned post on Twitter.
There’s no telling on when VLC Media Player will be ready for Windows Phone, but we expect it will land in the not too distant future.
Last month, the team released VLC for Windows 8, and the tight relation between the desktop platform and the mobile one will certainly help them speed up the release of the Windows Phone app. Stay tuned for more on this.