Video support on Apple's mobile devices is far from universal and that's an issue that Applidium hopes to solve with its submission of VLC, the open-source video player, to the App Store.
According to the company's release, "if everything goes well, VLC for the iPad should be available next week".
The free video player supports "nearly every video format" and when we asked Romain Goyet, co-founder of Applidium, if it supported Flash (the most obvious and controversial of missing video formats), he told us "This unfortunately I cannot answer right now (you guess why :-) )."
While he expects the player to be available in the App Store for download by September 14, it will initially only be available for the iPad, with a version for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the works. Goyet had a few other details to offer about the potential release:
As compared to the "desktop" version, the user interface will be quite a lot different, to fit the iPad. Behind the scene, the engine is the one from the "ususal" version of VLC, so it should play pretty much anything you throw at it. One small difference though : even though the iPad is a really neat device, it's nowhere as powerful as your desktop machine / laptop. So it might have a hard time decoding HD movies, but that's a hardware limitation.
According to a recent tweet, a pre-release version will be given out to a small number of users this weekend, before it hits the app store.
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