The release of VLC for Windows 8 is a good thing, do not get me wrong. Music was initially discovered by the player, but when I opened it again, all the music was not listed there anymore, and I could not figure out a way to repopulate it. It is also interesting to note that I encountered a bug while using the player. It only features a timeline and pause button, but no volume controls or other controls. It plays music right on the main screen of VLC though, and does not switch to full screen. You can snap the app to either side of the screen to improve this though, but it is far from ideal.
If you play a low res video in full screen, it may not be a pleasant experience.
While full screen may be a good choice, depending on the video that you play and the screen resolution of your Windows device, it may not look as good depending on those factors. There is no mute or volume change option for example, and I could not figure out how to switch audio tracks if a video supports more than one. It is a convenient system and works quite well actually. Here you can also open a subtitle file, or go back to the main interface. It offers basic controls: you can stop playback, jump back or forth using buttons or the timeline slider at the bottom, or increase or decrease the video speed. You can bring it back up when you click with the left mouse button. I guess you can work around that issue using symbolic links, but to make things simpler, an option to add other paths to scan should be included in the final version.Īs you would expect it, the video player launches any files you open in it in full screen mode.Ī basic control panel is displayed to you on start but is hidden after a couple of seconds. While you can configure the system to open VLC when you click on media files, it is inconvenient to only use the videos and music folders for the program's library feature. This can be an issue, as you cannot add other paths on your system to VLC so that they are scanned for video files. The interface displays a menu at the top which you can use to switch between the home screen, video and music pages, a page for external storage devices, and one for media servers.Īs far as settings go, there are not any right now. That does not mean that VLC won't play those formats though.Īccording to the product description, VLC for Windows 8 players "every kind of video" including mkv and flv, and also audio which includes mp3, off and flac for example. Thumbnails for some videos are created automatically, while this is not the case for other formats such as flv. As you can see on the app screenshot above, the music that VLC discovered looks a bit of a mess in the interface due to missing album covers. This looks either great or not so great depending on the state of your music and video collection.
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