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VLC 4.0 sneak peek—a look at its work-in-progress new interface

posted onFebruary 15, 2021
by l33tdawg
Arstechnica
Credit: Arstechnica

Last week, we mentioned that the extremely popular open source video player VLC is getting a brand-new interface in its upcoming 4.0 release, expected to debut later this year. VLC 4.0 isn't ready for prime time use yet—but because the program is open source, adventurous users can grab nightly builds of it to take a peek at what's coming. The screenshots we're about to show come from the nightly build released last Friday—20210212-0431.

When opening up the 4.0 dev version of VLC, the first change that leaps out is an interface shift from "file opener" to "media browser." In older versions of VLC—from its beginnings in 2001 all the way through the 3.x version being distributed now—it opens to a blank player window, with VLC's iconic traffic cone displayed in the center. The new VLC instead opens to a media-browser interface, showing thumbnails of all videos present in the user's Videos folder.

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