Donations are rolling in for VLC for Windows 8 Metro, with the collection gaining more than £6,000 in the last 5 days.

That may still leave the open source team, which are planning to create apps for Windows 8 x86, Windows RT and eventually Windows Phone 8 still short of their £40,000 ($64,000) target.

Microsoft has already pledged support in the form of hardware, technical and design help, but for the finances the team are relying on the eventually users, that being us.

Show your support and be listed as a contributor in the app, by making a small donation at Kickstarter UK here (they take $ as easy as £).