The guys at VLC have taken it easy when launching the corresponding update of their application to be compatible with the new format used by Apple in iOS 11, HEVC (H.265), a new format that allows us to record videos in the same quality as with the H.264 codec but taking up half the space.
The function for recording videos with this format is only available from iPhone 7, so if you have an iPhone 6s or lower, you will have been able to see how in the camera options the possibility of changing the recording format does not appear. When it comes to playing this type of content with other devices, we need a compatible player and VLC is one of the best that we can find in the App Store, and it is also free.
The VLC application has just been updated, a month after the launch of the iPhone X to adapt the user interface to the new screen format of the iPhone X ,. But as expected, they have taken the opportunity to add support for videos recorded in 4k quality in HEVC format, so that we can reproduce it on any device without having to convert it previously.
By the way, they have taken advantage of this update to solve some operating problems that were presenting the devices that today are still in previous versions of iOS, such as iOS 7 and iOS 8, and have solved small bugs that had been detected since the launch of the last update, a few months ago.
As I mentioned above, VLC is the best free player that we can currently find in the App Store, but in addition, it is also the best player that we can find for our PC or Mac, since it is compatible with any format that you can think of, whatever.