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VLC is open source so why hasn’t anyone attempted to port it to Symbian Series 60?

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 at 9:11 AM

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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: 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.

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About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Caveman_nige

    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..

  • Frans Dijkstra

    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.

  • Ali

    Did you try CorePlayer for Symbian? It’s a decent player but it’s not free. It’s far better than RealPlayer.

  • shane

    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!

  • Erw

    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.

  • theogeorgiou

    Sorry.. Wireless keyboard playing up..

    Thats theo@vtv.net.au

    Cheers

  • Eric

    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.