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videolan/vlc-ios

VLC for iOS/iPadOS and tvOS official mirror observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/videolan/vlc-ios · Objective-C · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 96
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3132
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 26
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1290 stars · 339 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The official VLC media player application for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, maintained by VideoLAN. It is written in Objective-C and Swift and built on top of VLCKit, a libvlc wrapper.

Use cases

  • play videos on iphone or ipad
  • stream media to apple tv
  • play local video files on ios
  • watch movies with subtitles on ipad
  • play audio files on ios
  • open-source media player for apple devices

When to choose

  • you want to contribute to or build the official VLC app for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS
  • you need a full-featured, free media player on Apple mobile devices
  • you want to embed or study a mature libvlc-based iOS player

When to avoid

  • you need a media player for Android or desktop platforms
  • you want a lightweight embeddable playback library rather than a full app (use VLCKit directly)
  • you require a permissively licensed codebase to copy into proprietary apps (license is non-standard)

Facets

application · maturity active

video-processing audio-processing gui media cross-platform apple-ecosystem cross-platform vlc media-player tvos objective-c swift vlckit mirror-repository ios mobile

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
videolan/vlc-iosmain75

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="videolan/vlc-ios")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem