Galaxy Book Edge laptops gets improved video playback on VLC

The popular open-source media player for computers, VLC, has finally received native support for Arm-based processors like the recently launched Snapdragon X2 Plus. This means Samsung's Galaxy Book Edge-series laptops that use Snapdragon chips (Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus) will get improved performance.

While VLC had no issues running on Windows computers and laptops using Arm-based processors, it was running via emulation using Microsoft's Prism technology. Now, with the latest update (version 3.0.23), VLC has added native support for ARM64 in both Windows 10 (version RS5 17763 / 1809) and Windows 11. Since emulation is no longer required to run VLC on Arm-based Windows laptops, its efficiency and performance should be better than earlier.

Besides improved performance and efficiency, VLC has received support for Dark Mode UI, renaming/moving/deleting of playing files, and codec updates (dav1d, ffmpeg, libvpx). This new version of the app also improves playback of numerous formats, including rendering of certain types of subtitles. It also brings bug fixes and closes various security vulnerabilities.

Microsoft has greatly improved its Prism emulator for Windows apps and games. Last month, the company shared that Prism on the latest version of Windows 11 (version 24H2) can now emulate even more types of Windows applications. This means even more Windows apps should run without any issues on Arm-based computers.