This would not be possible to do with volunteers,” clarifies the fundraising page.Īs well as the accelerated development, one of the main reasons to implement the Kickstarter appeal was cited as the need to pay professional graphic designers to polish the user interface, to make a smooth, aesthetically appealing interface that fits into the Modern UI. “We expect an initial release within three months after finishing the fundraiser. The money from the Kickstarter fundraising is said to be important for this project to allow core VLC devs to work full time in providing a VLC player for the Windows Modern UI. “This new port will be natively integrated within the new User Experience and will also support ARM-based tablets in a subsequent release,” explains the VLC Kickstarter page. The current Windows version is only for x86 based PCs and only for the desktop. VLC player is extremely popular the developers behind the media player say that it is installed on over 100 million Windows machines.
The goal for successful funding of the “Metro” VLC player was £40,000 and it has been reached with five days to spare. This includes people who have Windows RT and Windows Phone 8, both of which previously had no access to the VLC player because they lacked a desktop environment.
The popular multi-platform VLC media player is now definitely going to be made available for Windows 8 modern UI users.
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