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My new app ‘Right Click Booster‘ is now available on the Mac App Store. Like many of my favourite apps – this one springs out of an annoyance that I wanted to fix. If you have used windows, then you may well have used one of the many right click commands in the finder. Some
VLC Remote has been available in the Windows Phone store since 2012. The last update was in August 2014. It has 36 reviews with an average 5 star rating. Microsoft have unpublished it from the store because …it does not accurately reflect the source, functionality, capabilities or features of the app They haven’t given me
VLC Remote and VLC Streamer rely on you to translate them into your native language. If you’d like to help – please click through to http://translate.hobbyistsoftware.com and translate some strings. The site isn’t really mobile-friendly, so you probably want to do this on your laptop. I’m always happy to provide free copies if you help
Short version: If you copy movies to VLC Streamer using iTunes, then as from version 4.12, you’ll get a warning message and no sound for movies using these Dolby codecs. Dolby Digital (AC3) Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC3) Dolby TrueHD (MLP) The reason for this is that Dolby claim that playing sound encoded in those codecs
VLC Streamer 4.10 adds full Dropbox support. Dropbox is awesome – it creates a magical folder on your computer which is backed up to the internet, and available on all your devices. If you don’t have Dropbox, then click on http://HobbyistSoftware.com/GetDropbox to get Dropbox. It is Awesome! (this is a referral link which gives you
Apple’s new Beta Testing service is now live. If you have an iOS8 device, then I can now add you to my list of beta testers and get your input on new features (and possible new bugs!) If you’re interested in getting involved in testing and developing VLC Streamer, VLC Remote and Off Remote, then
I get asked about Chromecast a handful of times a month. I have a Chromecast to test on, and I love the concept. I’d love to be able to support it with VLC Streamer. Unfortunately, Chromecast just doesn’t work very well. In my testing – it fails to play most streams (streams that play fine
VLC Streamer now has a full VLC playback engine. We use it to play back various ‘difficult’ files. You’ll know that we’re using VLC if the movie starts with the distinctive orange screen. You can choose to use VLC for playback by tapping on the info box next to the movie and selecting ‘play in
Apple just approved the free version of VLC Streamers new design (together with some fixes for the paid version). This has been a huge project, but should now work beautifully with the new iPhone 6 and 6+ as well as iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. We have tried to give more information, and also to
Update: As of 6th October, Apple have approved the update which should sort this issue and a handful of other minor problems. Please make sure you update to 4.01. Apple just approved VLC Streamer 4, which is a massive redesign, and which fully supports iOS8 and the new devices. Unfortunately, there are a couple of
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