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Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Any plan on working with Matchstick as well?

So far, no. Working on Mozilla technologies is usually very painful.

Too bad! I hope there will be better news once it comes out around August. :)

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Should be enabled by default. Just seek within a video file to any position that is not at the very beginning or the end and close VLC. Once you play that file again it should prompt you to resume the playback. EDIT: of course this doesn't apply to streams or non-seekable files

Weird... after I opened a file using the "Media->Open File" menu item, it started appearing. (It now works even in cases where I open a file by double-clicking on it. Strange) In any case, awesome!

I see no such option (Windows 7 x64) and indeed VLC does not resume playback. Probably not a high priority feature for them.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Does anyone know why the self updater on OSX is not able to find the update? I just get the message "VLC 2.1.5 is currently the newest version available."

I just checked on my Mac (Latest OSX) and VLC 2.1.4 and it's working (I was 1 version behind it looks like)

Well no, the new version is 2.2.0 and the version before was 2.1.5 so actualy you got the previous update with the updater.

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…

I have been using VLC as my video player for the longest time. Thank you and everyone involved for all your time and work put into it. EDITS Donation link : https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html#money

just chipped in $5... (very small considering how much I've used VLC over the years on Win, Mac, Linux, Android, etc.)

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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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

Awesome! Thanks for your great work.

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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Typically in the Anime scene VLC is known as being inferior. Many cases MPC-HC with the MadVR renderer and Xy-Vsfilter or XySubFilter for subtitles are recommended for superior playback. Do you have any input on this, perhaps to debunk the inferior claim (maybe it's due to subtitle rendering?) or if any improvements to catch up? Anyway, thanks for the software. I love VLC, using the portableapps.com version here at w…

last time i tried mpc-hc had good support for v-sync (and "debugging" it) and vlc had problems with screen tearing.

originally i wanted to use linux, but the screen tearing there was even worse.

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…

jbk - With 3.0.0 do you have any plans to switch the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installers from NSIS compiled EXEs to MSIs to make it easier to deploy and/or customize which features are installed?

The only reason for asking is that I came across the .wxs files on your Github page. [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/extras/package/w...

Re: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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I just checked on my Mac (Latest OSX) and VLC 2.1.4 and it's working (I was 1 version behind it looks like)

Well no, the new version is 2.2.0 and the version before was 2.1.5 so actualy you got the previous update with the updater.

I'm sorry, I meant "One version behind was was the newest before 2.2.0" I realise that was confusing now. I said it in case there was a bug in 2.1.5's updater that was not present in 2.1.4's.
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