You may recall some months back we reported on VLC’s kickstarter to raise $75,000 in an effort to create a free Metro Win8 App._ The project has been behind schedule and we reported on their progress in June._ In October the team finally got the_video portion of the app working, but not the audio._VLC’s President Jean-Baptiste Kempf released a statement to Neowin today: We have video (correct one), audio, support for all files formats without our old trick (sending it on a local network), network streaming playback, and subtitles. All that with passing the WACK (technical certification). We have submitted it already (and got rejected, because of a crash). We will try to get around this nasty bug (race condition) and resubmit (this week? the next?) The WinRT app may take more time before it is released: “We’re working hard on it, since we don’t have (yet) a fully working compiler, but that (is) the next task and should come in the following weeks hopefully.” The port from Windows RT...

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