The player VLC comes to Apple TV without limitations compared to the current desktop version. This is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated news for VLC users who also have a new Apple TV. In reality, the arrival of the application for the new Apple device was being awaited, but there was no specific date for its launch, since the work with it has been developing since last September.
Sometimes Apple's default player Quicktime doesn't support some kind of file format and this is fixed with VLC that we can literally say that it supports all current formats without problem. One of the advantages of this player is that it adds subtitles (which it does from OpenSubtitles.org), the playback of content remotely or from a local network and even from the cloud through Dropbox or similar.
But there is a negative fact in this news and it is that all the advantages of the application are under the shadow of not offering AC3 support, this is certainly a blemish for those who want to use VLC on Apple TV. On iOS we don't have support for AC3 either And it was surprising that they added it to the app for Apple TV, although it is true that we can enjoy all the benefits of the application in Apple's new set top box.
VLC has been installed for 5 minutes, all, ALL my movies that I have downloaded are in AC3 and with VLC I have no audio.
I will continue to use infuse which DOES play AC3 and it works great.
They shouldn't have taken it out like this.
Me too…
I also use Infuse which has AC3 support.