VLC releases ARM64 version for Windows 10 on ARM PCs

Popular media player VLC has now get ane of the offset to bring together the ranks of Windows apps with native ARM64 support (via Engadget; MSPU). The move comes not long after Microsoft launched support for edifice ARM64 Windows apps in the latest Visual Studio preview, announced at its Build 2022 developer conference.

The commencement Windows ten on ARM devices launched before this twelvemonth, and each is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 platform. Windows ten on ARM is already capable of running legacy Windows apps via x86 emulation. However, having to run apps through an emulation layer comes at a slight operation cost. Offering the option for developers to recompile their apps to run natively on ARM64 chips should mean that apps are able to squeeze out every concluding chip of performance enabled by the hardware.

Equally Microsoft pointed out at Build, native ARM64 support is still in an early on preview, so there are some caveats here. While developers tin can build ARM64 apps in Visual Studio, official support is nevertheless defective. Developers aren't able to submit ARM64 packages to the Microsoft Shop only yet, but they can post preview versions of their Win32 apps rebuilt for ARM64 on their websites.

If yous own a Windows 10 on ARM PC, such every bit the HP Envy x2, yous can download the ARM64 VLC parcel from VLC now to get started.

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