VLC for Apple TV review: Goodbye format woes<article>
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<span style="line-height: 1.75em;">The Apple TV is a great networked media player, but it would be greater still if it supported more file types and played from more locations. By locations, I mean over the network from something other than an iTunes server, and—oh, I don’t know—an attached USB drive?</span></p><p>
Well, there’s no help for the latter at the moment, despite the USB-C port on the latest model, but there is a viable and completely free alternative for playing a variety of media types over the network: VLC, or the VideoLan Player.</p><p>
VLC is well known throughout the computing universe. On Windows, it’s just one of several options for playing variegated file types. On the Mac and Linux, the best of very few. On Apple TV it’s a welcome addition that obviates the need to pony up cash for anything on the rather abbreviated list of flawed products (Playable, OnePlayer, 8 Player, etc.) and Plex, which requires an account.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3023383/streaming-media/vlc-for-apple-tv-review-goodbye-format-woes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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VLC for Apple TV review: Goodbye format woes
