VLC media player made it's way to the mobile world with Apple iOS release and as an pre-alpha developer release on Google Android platform. Now all android users can enjoy this versatile open-source video player on their devices as the beta version is now available officially at Google Play store for free. The "VLC Player NEON" version currently released supports only ARMv7 CPU based devices and features the ability to play majority of local audio/video files, network streams, multi-track audio and subtitles, auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments, gestures and a media library.

The hugely popular multi-platform, open-source VLC Media Player is well known for it's wide support for virtually every multimedia format available. The nifty media-player is already available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Apple iOS platforms, while Android port of this software is still under development in pre-alpha phase - we now have a first public compiled binary build of Android VLC Media Player for Android available for download.

Similar to another popular media-player port of MPlayer to android, VLC for android will allow users to say goodbye to all the multimedia re-encodings as they will become a “supported format” for your device once VLC is in there.

Free and open source, cross-platform multimedia player VLC Media Player got updated to v 1.1.0 introducing impressive new features like better support for HD video via GPU decoding, improved audio experience, faster decoding, lighter footprint, new add-ons and script framework for personalization and added support for WebM decoding and encoding. Full list of new changes with download links is available after the jump.

Latest version of highly versatile and popular VLC Media Player v 0.9.2 is now available for downloading, the last version of the free open-source cross-platform media player was downloaded 95,056,974 times from the official website itself, the current version is getting downloaded at the rate of ~ 5.1 downloads/second.