VLC Media Player for iPod touch
Posted in iPod | By AhTim @ July 21st, 2008
We all are so excited to wait for the release of VLC Media Player for iPod touch and iPhone. It still not release the final version yet, but already available for paid BETA tester.
As you know, a lack of iPod touch is it very rely on sync from iTunes. The sync process waste a lot of times in format conversion and synchronization. I hope with VLC Media Player development, it give us the freedom of mobile movie entertainment!
Why use VLC4iPhone ?
The original software name vlc4iphone was developed by Zottd, a cool developer. The software has been changed to ZodPlay and changed back to vlc4iphone recently, to avoid confusion, says Zottd.
Although the name VLC4iPhone, it is compatible with iPod touch too. It is now supported video formats: XviD, H264, MPEG4, FLAC, 3GP, MP3, MPEG2, AVI, etc. There will be more formats coming in, hopefully RMVB one day. 
How to Install VLC4iPhone ?
I know I should not reveal the method to install VLC4iphone in manual way. So far, VLC4iphone is only available for BETA tester who pay for it. I swear I respect intellectual software. But normally I won’t pay before try it.
After search and research, I’ve found a way to manually install ZodPlay, the predecessor of VLC4iPhone. It’s really a simple interface in its current version. Follow these simple steps to install on your iPod or iPhone manually (Of course, you must hack your iPod touch or iPhone first before proceed).
1. Download ZodPlay v0.9.5.7 (~7.8MB, in .PXL format)
2. After downloaded, rename it from .PXL to .ZIP
3. Extract the Zodplay zipped file. Should contain 2 subfolders, lib and ZodPlay folder.
4. Rename the subfolder ZodPlay to ZodPlay.app
5. SSH your ipod and go to Applications folder in iPod touch or iPhone.
6. Copy the ZodPlay.app folder to Applications folder in iPod touch or iPhone, set permisions of all the files and folders inside to 777.
7. Copy the library file from subfolder Lib into /usr/lib in your ipod and set permisions to 755.
8. Restart iPhone or iPod touch
9. Create folder “zodplay” in /var/root/Media/ directory.
9. Put Audio or Video files in the created ZodPlay folder.
10. You’re done! Launch ZodPlay and enjoy your videos.
I’ve installed both ZodPlay and VLC4iPhone in my iPod touch
Please respect intellectual and hard work of the developer. Donate or pay for the software if you like it. According to Zottd, its latest VLC4iphone version v0.9.5 has been added with streaming feature. Cool!
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Tags: vlc media player, vlc4iphone, zodplay
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
This software sounds to be genius in it self.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
i followed the instructions, everything seems to be fine but zodplay didn’t show up on my ipod touch?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
@help me: a restart might help to resolve.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
i followed the steps and wen i launch zodplay, it shows a white screen then exits after about a second
April 6th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
@rachelle: Maybe related to folder and permission problem. Have you created all necessary folder and set permission? Also recheck step no.7
April 19th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Im having the same problem as rachelle. all permissions are set right and folders also, (rachelle did u ever figure it out?)
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I follow your instructions exactly but nothing appeared in my ipod touch 1g,
so what did i wrong,and explain one more thing please,
when i follow instruction # 6.and set permission to 777 but there i could’nt see what i copied ?
So is it ok?
please try to response as soon as u can.
Thanks in advance
June 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am
@John,Kashif: Don’t worry, dTunes can solve your problem. Install dTunes via Cydia.
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I like this, think I need to set up my own blog sometime.