VLC 2.2.0 released
Version 2.2.0 of the VLC media player has been released. According to the announcement, highlights in the new version include automatic, hardware-accelerated rotation of portrait-orientation videos such as those shot on smartphones, resuming playback at the last point watched in the previous session, in-application download and installation of extensions, support for interactive Blu-Ray menus, and "compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs
". The release is available for Linux, Android, and Android TV, plus various Windows and Apple platforms.
Posted Feb 28, 2015 0:06 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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The last repo I saw that was this strange was ImageMagick's...
Posted Feb 28, 2015 8:50 UTC (Sat)
by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248)
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See https://wiki.videolan.org/GetTheSource/ which itself is not that trivial to find if you don't know this information is there; you can get to it from www.videolan.org → Developer area → Developer's corner in the Wiki → Get the source.
Posted Mar 3, 2015 18:28 UTC (Tue)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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No, it's more than one. That little +/- next to it is an indication that forks of the repo exist. There is almost no indication that it might be clickable, or might do anything different than clicking on the rest of the line: the highlighting of the rest of the line, and the clickable regions on it, actively militate against anyone forming any such impression, since they all go to the same place (the development repo).
This user interface is... not optimal.
Posted Feb 28, 2015 3:41 UTC (Sat)
by dashesy (guest, #74652)
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Posted Feb 28, 2015 8:49 UTC (Sat)
by sytoka (guest, #38525)
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Posted Feb 28, 2015 18:05 UTC (Sat)
by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
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Posted Feb 28, 2015 18:13 UTC (Sat)
by dashesy (guest, #74652)
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Posted Feb 28, 2015 17:50 UTC (Sat)
by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
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On a Chromebook with HTML/JS GUI and media parsing and codecs running as PNaCl plugin the story would be much, much better just by minimizing the exposure what hurm the code could potentially do....
Posted Mar 1, 2015 17:48 UTC (Sun)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Posted Mar 2, 2015 4:10 UTC (Mon)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Google needn't support VLC but surely they should supply some sort of media player that plays all the common formats well?
Posted Mar 2, 2015 6:33 UTC (Mon)
by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
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Posted Mar 2, 2015 14:12 UTC (Mon)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Are you visitor from some kind of parallel universe? Yea, I agree that in any iniverse where Fedora includes decent media player “that plays all the common formats well” ChromeOS should do that, too. In our world all the legal issues applicable to RedHat are applicable to Google, too, thus it's not feasible. What is feasible is to provide media player with support for most common formats (MP3, MP4) and a way for third-parties to make decent media player for other formats. Google did that that and more: with App Runtime For Chrome one could run Android applications—but only if developers of such applications are ready to submit them for approval. AFAICS it's temporary limitations related to the state of said runtime: ARChon anthusiasts may think that "crashes once after asking for play services, perfect after that" is the same as "No problems, app runs perfectly, or without major issues", but I doubt Google would like to see such an app in the Chrome Web Store.
Posted Mar 2, 2015 16:49 UTC (Mon)
by dashesy (guest, #74652)
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Posted Mar 3, 2015 7:05 UTC (Tue)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Posted Mar 4, 2015 0:01 UTC (Wed)
by DonDiego (guest, #24141)
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> In our world all the legal issues applicable to RedHat are applicable to
Google is an MPEG-LA licensee, RedHat is not.
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx
Posted Mar 2, 2015 3:33 UTC (Mon)
by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
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Posted Mar 2, 2015 9:59 UTC (Mon)
by bradh (guest, #2274)
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Posted Mar 2, 2015 10:27 UTC (Mon)
by geuder (subscriber, #62854)
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More careful reading of http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.0.html reveals that the Android version of "the release" is numbered 1.1.0 beta.
On their download page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html they say "The current version is 0.9.10."
In the Aptoide market for Jolla phone they offer version 1.0
Well, it's open source. We should not complain, but offer our help to the release team maybe. Probably the "team" is just one overworked guy anyway :(
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The ball is in VLC developer's corner, not Google's corner. VLC does not work with App Runtime for Chrome because it uses some private Android interfaces, thats all. It should be trivial for VLC developers to rip these out. Few days of work at most. Perhaps they were just too busy trying to finish 2.2.0 release? IDK. But it's up to them now, Google couldn't do anything if VLC developers just don't want to release VLC for Chromebooks.
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I do not think Google cares much about apps in Chrome web store, if they did why is that the only apps that claim to be VLC (and even stole the icon) are scams?VLC 2.2.0 released
Or maybe this sort of *apps* are good to inflate the numbers?
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> Google, too, thus it's not feasible.
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M2/Pages/Licensees.aspx
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M4V/Pages/Licensees.aspx
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