We chat with the leaders of the VLC Windows 8 team

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Microsoft announced several months ago that the standard version of Windows 8 would not play back DVD discs, although it will be able to do so with the optional Windows Media Center add-on. As many people know already, a team of volunteers under the VideoLAN brand have released a free open source-based DVD and media software app called VLC. Several weeks ago, the team announced they wanted to make a Windows 8-based version of VLC that would work in the "Modern" UI.

However, in order to jump start development, the VideoLAN team decided to fund it via a Kickstarter crowd sourced campaign. With 12 days to go, the effort has funded just over half of its £40,000 goal. We got Felix Kühne and Jean-Baptiste Kempf of the VideoLAN team to answer our questions on this effort to bring VLC to Windows 8.

Interview: We chat with the leaders of the VLC Windows 8 team

 

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Note that VLC technically re-releases codecs without the proper licensing for some of their included codecs, which is perfectly legal under French law. However, if they were to attempt to put this on the marketplace in countries that actually have IP laws, this wouldn't be allowed as it contains code that infringes on IP and thus isn't legal to distribute in a lot of countries.

Just FYI.