VLC for Windows Phone updated (1.2.0) with partial hardware decoding and more

The VideoLAN team has recently pushed out a new public update to its beta version of VLC Media Player for Windows Phone. The update brings version 1.2.0 along with numerous improvements and initial support for hardware acceleration for video decoding to the app. VLC is  a cross platform media player, which supports multiple video formats.

You can download the update directly on your device through the Windows Phone Store or by using the following links:

Download
Price	Free
Requirements	Windows Phone 8.1
Press the Search button on your Windows Phone, tap Vision  and then scan the following barcode by pointing your device camera toward it

VLC Media Player for Windows Phone version 1.2.0 has the following new features and improvements:

• Support for hardware acceleration for video decoding
• Numerous improvements

As you may know, VLC media player is now a universal Windows app, sharing around 80% of their XAML code and  over 95% of the C# code between the Windows Phone and Windows versions.