On linux I use mpv (best and most actively developed of the mplayer family, imho), which has had zero-copy HW accel (vdpau and vaapi) for quite some time now. But on all other platforms I enjoy VLC. Kudos to the team, it was a long time coming and must be quite gratifying to see it come to fruition.
VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
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Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
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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.
Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not working for me :<
Me neither. The only reason I downloaded it was for this feature. This dead simple feature which was available in 1976 (or whenever) when VHS came out. It should be in every digital player at version 1.0. Very poor work. It's really spotty, and it shows up as a bar at the top of the window on seemingly random loads, about 10 percent of the time. Whatever video player VUZE uses works 100 percent of the time and doesn'…
I agree. I actually rolled back to the previous version since there's an extension that works perfectly for this that is broken by the new version. Check it out:
http://vlcsrposplugin.sourceforge.net/
Just like to add my thanks to the vlc guys. I've been using it for 15 years and it's a true credit to the foss movement.
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#154I can't say enough good things about VLC. It has its quirks (the glitch when switching between videos in a playlist is annoying as hell), but when it comes down to it, there is nothing comparable, at any price. I use it professionally in an audiovisual company I started a few years ago, for screening films on huge screens outside, and I've tried several alternatives (often to address problems that turned out not to b…
> the glitch when switching between videos in a playlist is annoying as hell Are you sure those are still present?
Not entirely sure, as we haven't done any big video screenings since last summer (we mostly do outdoor screenings, and it's been too cold for that), and I haven't tried the new version, at all.
But, it was an issue that was present for a long time, and I found a discussion on the mailing list from maybe three years ago when the problem first surfaced. Someone explained that it was an intentional change, but my understanding was that it was only supposed to happen when the video mode changed (i.e. to a different resolution or bit depth). But, we tested it extensively with videos that were identically processed (same container, same compression/encoding, same resolution, same color depth) and it would still glitch. We minimized its visibility by setting the background of the OS to black and hiding all icons and toolbars, which made it close enough to invisible that our clients never noticed it. But, I could spot it, and in an otherwise flawless and reliable experience it was always really annoying.
I'll check the new version out as soon as I've got some free time. We'll need to prepare for the new summer season in a few weeks anyway (we're in Texas, where it gets warm early), and I've been planning to switch to running our videos off of a Linux system, instead of Windows, since I'm finally seeing acceptable audiovisual performance as of the past year or so.
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#155It's still not aware of renamed/moved files on OS X. Every other app picks up the new location of a file if you move it while it's in use, but VLC complains if it encounters a moved file in the playlist, getting stuck in an infinite error loop if you have it set to Repeat One.
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
x86-64 is such an ABI improvement over x86-32 that it's always 10-20% faster, even with the larger size pointers. Win64's ABI is a little worse than other platforms for libavcodec, since it has some callee-saved SSE registers and everyone else is caller-saved, but still true. Hardware decoding is much more important for power savings than anything else.
Most standard video decoding code uses CPU feature detection and hand-optimized ASM for important bits, so x86-64 doesn't really add anything worthwhile for most video players and encoders - most of the magic is done in SSE/AVX codepaths anyway.
And x86-64 turns those 8 SSE registers into 16! Those handwritten assembly paths are much easier when you don't have to write stack spills.
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#157So, 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…
I tried to play something from Plex Server in 2.4.1 on iOS, and get message about AC3 not supported?
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?
For iOS, we have a pretty good patch to do it, yes.
We just have a weird but with M2TS files, but we will merge it during the next month. Expect it for 2.6.0
Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
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> the glitch when switching between videos in a playlist is annoying as hell Are you sure those are still present?
Not entirely sure, as we haven't done any big video screenings since last summer (we mostly do outdoor screenings, and it's been too cold for that), and I haven't tried the new version, at all. But, it was an issue that was present for a long time, and I found a discussion on the mailing list from maybe three years ago when the problem first surfaced. Someone explained that it was an intentional change, but my unders…
If resolution (and even that) and mostly chroma are similar, VLC should recycle. If it does not, please file a bug.
As for using Linux, try the OpenGL module, instead of the default.
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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.
Any plan on working with Matchstick as well?
So far, no. Working on Mozilla technologies is usually very painful.