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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by jamessmith89 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:16AM (#8990762)
I have a copy of the original VLC App on my iPad, but since I've bought my new iPhone 6, and restored it from iCloud, the official VLC player was missing when the restore was completed, I'm guessing this us to do with it being pulled from the App store at the time.

To my surprise, I was looking at the purchased app section on the App store on my phone, and under the area where it lists Apps not on my iPhone I saw VLC Player, with the cloud button with a downwards arrow on it, so I quickly download it. Not too sure what happened, but I now have the official VLC app back on my iPhone.

It says the developer is VideoLAN and version 2.4.0 and not the one by Jiri Volek

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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by teajay on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:20AM (#8990793)
You can still download IPA file from VideoLAN[1]. I'm wondering if it's signed and ready to install through iTunes. I also have original copy from App Store, so can't test.

[1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by jamessmith89 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:21AM (#8990801)
I'm not too sure what happened, the one in the link you posted is 2.3.0, and the one I got from the App store is 2.4.0
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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by feepk on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:26AM (#8990843)
This is because you downloaded our app a while ago and we did something so you can re-download it to your device now. This is in preparation of our actual release in the next days (we won't release 2.4.0 publicly but 2.4.1 because of a regression).
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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by jamessmith89 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:28AM (#8990856)
Will I need to delete 2.4.0 when the new version comes out, or will I be able to just update it as usual from the App store?
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Re:VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN by feepk on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:30AM (#8990866)
Just update as usual :)
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