VLC is open source so why hasn’t anyone attempted to port it to Symbian Series 60?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 at 9:11 AM PST In Ideas and rants
If you don’t know about VLC then you’ve been living under a rock. Imagine one media player to rule them all. Every file format, subtitles, streaming, it does … everything! More importantly it’s open source!
So I propose this Nokia (NYSE: NOK): Make a team to start working on that project! Real Player is crap, there I said it, absolute crap. Not to mention the default music player built into ever Series 60 device looks like something that was designed back in 1997.
Here is a link to VLC
And here is the Nokia Open Source website
Feel free to call me out if this is something that is technically impossible.
Why has nobody followed up on this request by Stefan, it is a while back since he asked and the need for VLC on Symbian is growing all the time… Please port this superior product for Symbian..
This would absolutely be a killer app for the N9x series – finally a good app to use bandwidth with! Imagine streaming your own video’s from your home server to your Nokia!
Real player is worthless, only flash-video currently delivers some reasonable video to Nokia.
Did you try CorePlayer for Symbian? It’s a decent player but it’s not free. It’s far better than RealPlayer.
I too would love to have VLC on my Nokia PDA. Then I could stream my mythtv recorded shows onto my phone! Someone please do this!
I coulnt agree more when you say Real Player sucks. It sucks 4 PC and it sucks 4 mobile. Messes up your entire PC and it is more or less impossible to get rid of it’t traces. One of those app-makers who think they have the right to do anything with your computer. Real Player is seriously a malware.
Enough whining :p I would realy appreciate VLC Player for Symbian S60. I’d personaly mail the pope, explain the situation and make him declare he/she a saint.
Vote on S60.com for VLC media player on (Nokia) Symbian S60
Everyone, vote for this wish, by giving a star, on S60.com to fully port the VLC Media Player to the (Nokia) Symbian S60 platform for mobile devices, if you want universal A/V playback on your mobile devices. VLC is open source and it leaves (almost) no audio or video codec behind.
Hopefully Nokia will port VLC if they see enough votes, like they’ve already successfully ported Apache (Mobile Web Server), PuTTy, Python, P.I.P.S. (Is POSIX on Symbian) and Qt (Programing Toolkit) for Symbian S60.
VLC media player for Symbian S60
http://www.s60.com/life/application/wishlist/app/displayWishDetails.do?wishId=2490&activeCat=-5
Would love to help guys, but symbian seems to be a major issue.
We have a site http://www.vtv.net.au which when completed in the next few weeks will have over 3,000
free tv channels which can be viewed by multiple browsers and os.
If you want to check it out now, use standard internet explore and see whats comming.. enjoy..
If you hae any suggestions, email me at theo@vtt.net.au
Will try and pull a few strings with Nokia.
Cheers and good luck!!
Sorry.. Wireless keyboard playing up..
Thats theo@vtv.net.au
Cheers
MAHASERVER has ported VLC to Symbian
http://web.mahaserver.com/mahashare.php?id=311
Further Development will keep on going….Interested developers can join
contact : admin@mahaserver.com
Its past July 1,2009. Where is VLC? I don’t believe a word of it. From what I’m to understand the only thing this thing needs now is a GUI. Which is the easiest part. All they need to do is make the program & we ourselves can get the certificates for it.
I believe this was a hoax designed by Nokia to ward off any attempts to develop a Media Player for Symbian OS. Trust me. Nokia already made one but are trying to pedal there stupid Ovi store like apple did with the I phone.. Don’t you get it Nokia that’s the reason I did not buy an iPhone you idiots! Samsung Omnia HD, the iphone, Palm, WM and Android are looking much better than anything Nokia has because they won’t release a freaking Avi player.