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Not really on topic, but am I the only person who finds metro to be really really REAllY ugly?
And the jumping between Metro and Desktop environment is just too hectic!
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Well, no, this is not too much. This is an excellent question. Designing a UI above VLC for Metro is quite easy, and we've already done some proof of concept. Finding a designer would be simple and 1k$ for the project would be too much already :) It would take a couple of months and be done with it. The issue is to get on the store. And this is hard. Why is that? VLC (and its underlying libraries, including codecs, n…
Do you think VLC will be the better for it?
(BTW, I already contributed to VLC in the past. It's very useful and I think they deserve it.)
You know what I would like to contribute for? To bring the old Mac interface back. (BTW, I already contributed to VLC in the past. It's very useful and I think they deserve it.)
I'm all for funding 40k pounds (~65k USD) for VLC (they deserve it), but 40k under the guise of Metro seems a bit much, no?
Personally I feel like the 40K GBP should go to all the devs of VLC combined. Porting to metro is only a small part of VLC itself, and is not worth 40K GBP. What makes it worth that money, and that people will pay for it, is that VLC is the hard work of all the _previous_ developers. So while I'm all for giving people money to make an open source project advance, I feel a little wrong about this very one.
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Wow. Sounds like anyone who's ever made Windows software and wants to port it to Windows 8 store is going to have to go through a lot of pain.
If it's not very computationally intensive program, using javascript/html is starting to make a lot more sense
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Well, no, this is not too much. This is an excellent question. Designing a UI above VLC for Metro is quite easy, and we've already done some proof of concept. Finding a designer would be simple and 1k$ for the project would be too much already :) It would take a couple of months and be done with it. The issue is to get on the store. And this is hard. Why is that? VLC (and its underlying libraries, including codecs, n…
It sounds like it's going to be a real challenge, then. Much of the restriction around API usage is related to IO and other things that can block for more than about 50ms. As you know, the APIs that are allowable have been converted to be asynchronous, or have been replaced entirely with an async equivalent (more or less). This will make it difficult to just link with a gcc lib unless it's been purged of these refere…
Yes
> In addition, there are no database APIs, for example. So it's really a crap shoot about how much difficulty a given project will take to port.
We will do the database APIs, in fact :)
1. You can't show the playlist and the video at the same time. 2. The playhead is a TINY DOT. Seriously, WTF? Is trying to grab it supposed to be some kind of game? Pathetic.
You know what I would like to contribute for? To bring the old Mac interface back. (BTW, I already contributed to VLC in the past. It's very useful and I think they deserve it.)
http://feepk.net/customizing-vlc-for-mac
If this isn't enough for me, create requests on https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ so we can see what we can do!