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Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they download it.

We don't do it for the money :)

But I am guessing it doesn't hurt either ;-)

I hope you won't object, I edited my post above to include a link to the donations page.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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We don't do it for the money :)

But I am guessing it doesn't hurt either ;-) I hope you won't object, I edited my post above to include a link to the donations page.

Money is used for buying hardware, going to conferences, codec bounties and organizing a big multimedia conference.

But if you have one million or two, I got great ideas :D

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they download it.

Many of us donated for VLC for WP/WinRT on Kickstarter in 2012 and it's still in very early phases. :(

Totally untrue. Everything is released and usable. This is the point of this release.

Hardware decoding is getting finished now, while we still don't have it on iOS.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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There have been rumors of an upcoming release offering Chromecast support. I don't see Chromecast listed as an input media for 2.2.0. Does anyone know if this is being worked on for a future release, or am I overlooking something?

edit: It may be a longer wait...

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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VLC is the greatest media player for iOS.

Much better than iTunes, which is shit and garbage, like most apple software (go ahead, downvote me apple fanboi).

About 6 months ago, VLC suddenly vanished from my iPhone. Turns out, Apple, feeling threatened by VLC, had banned it from the App store.

VLC: I have missed you so much... thank you for coming back to me.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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So, it's the first time we do a coordinated release of VLC. We're doing it for desktop (Linux, Windows, OS X) and mobile ports (Android, Windows Phone, Windows RT, iOS) but also for Android TV. It's been quite difficult, but we're finishing the work we've started 2 years ago to move to mobile: the code base is now ready for that, without hacks. So, a lot of the cooler stuff for mobile are going to happen for 3.0.0 th…

MediaLibraryKit and MobileVLCKit links on the ios page (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html) seem to be broken - not that I have any need for them, but thought you might like to know.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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I once tried to use VLC to stream an MP4 stream captured by some kind of 3rd party driver so that others could use their VLCs to connect to it and watch what's on air. However, as soon as I begin streaming, it always hung on me (normal playback of the same MP4 captured stream is fine). Were there any improvements in streaming part of VLC? Is it even supposed to work?:) Thanks, top notch player, I use it exclusively o…

> Were there any improvements in streaming part of VLC? Is it even supposed to work?:) Yes, but it works only in very specific cases. We're doing a lot of work on that for 3.0.0

Thanks for the reply!

Can you be more specific on those specific cases?:) Is the bitrate or maybe stream format a problem? Is there a configuration that will always work (we can even forget about MP4) right now?

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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There have been rumors of an upcoming release offering Chromecast support. I don't see Chromecast listed as an input media for 2.2.0. Does anyone know if this is being worked on for a future release, or am I overlooking something? edit: It may be a longer wait... https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS

Yes. We've been working on ChromeCast, and many other features for 3.0.0. It's been merged since a long time, but is not completely usable, therefore not released.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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> Were there any improvements in streaming part of VLC? Is it even supposed to work?:) Yes, but it works only in very specific cases. We're doing a lot of work on that for 3.0.0

Thanks for the reply! Can you be more specific on those specific cases?:) Is the bitrate or maybe stream format a problem? Is there a configuration that will always work (we can even forget about MP4) right now?

TS/h264/mpga or HLS ;)
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