14 DAY TRIAL // The folks at VideoLabs have just released a new version of their VLC media player for Android devices.
The stable version of the application has been available in Google Play Store for quite some time, but developers are pushing new features to the beta version pretty frequently.
In order to have access to VLC Beta for Android, you will need to join the Google+ community and become a tester. If you have already done that, then you will have access to VLC Beta for Android 1.5, which has just been released.
According to developers, this is a major release since they have rewritten most of the VLC application internals to be faster for the next releases and to support video playlists and audio/video switches.
In addition, developers confirmed they have reduced the number of permissions needed, in particular for Android 4.4 KitKat devices and more recent.
VideoLabs cleaned the UI even more, to fit with Material Design, but they have also added a few new features, including USB auto-detection, better audio/video sync, as well as better chapters support.
If you're already a beta tester, then you can now download VLC beta for Android 1.5.0, otherwise you will only see the stable version of the application which is still 1.3.2.