Once the VLC team hits the £40,000 (around $64,100) goal, they expect to finish the port within three months. As noted on the Kickstarter page, however, there are some caveats to the project. An ARM-based version of VLC won’t be made available for Windows RT straight away, with support promised in a future update. Even when it is eventually released, banned API calls could bar it from the Windows Store altogether. Asking so openly for funds via Kickstarter is also a change in pace for the team behind the media player, who have relied on optional user donations through the VLC website in the past to keep development active. Still, radically overhauling the program’s design is no small feat — let’s just hope that VLC for Windows 8 isn’t delayed like so many other Kickstarter projects.