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25 August 2016

Last weeks in VideoLAN - 53

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 25 August 2016, 17:50 - VideoLAN

53rd VideoLAN report

During the core of the hot European summer, here is a weekly report about the last 2 weeks in the VLC and VideoLAN communities!

It was a bit calm, to be honest; and I'm a bit late to publish. Summer is the cause :)

Features

VLC

The week started by a lot of code cleanup and renaming for the Mac OS interface. We also had improvements focus on the Sierra release.

On the decoding side, we've had some improvement for hardware decoding in Direct3D11, focused on HEVC decoding.

We also had fixes for the OSX VideoToolbox decoder, notably to be able to restart the decoder when required.

A module supporting the AV1 from the Alliance for Open Media was merged too. So far, it's only a decoder, and disabled by default.

On the streaming side, the MP4 muxer timestamps were fixed. It was also backported to the 2.2.x branch.

We now have ARM64 assembly for our deinterlacer, which will be very useful for iOS, Apple TV and Android TV.

Finally, we had fixes for RTSP passwords saving in the keystore, improvements for RTSP support and the H264 packetizer, and we added support for UTF8 filenames in FTP directory listings, and support for DiscNumber and DiscTotal metadata in MP4, and DNxHR!

Android

On Android, we've mostly fixed crashes, updated translations and pushed 2.0.6 in production, on the play store.

The work is mostly done now on the new media library code, that will be merged later.

WinRT

On UWP, the focus has been on the XBox 1, and mostly on how we can upload files on the box, since we don't have access to the filesystem.

The current solution is using an HTTP webserver to upload the files from your browser, and support for USB disks.

That's all for those weeks, see you next!

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21 June 2016

Announcing VLC for Android 2.0

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 21 June 2016, 17:08 - VideoLAN

VLC for Android 2.0

After a long development period, VideoLAN is finally releasing VLC for Android 2.0.
Our last major release was 1.7.0, more than 6 months ago!

VLC for Android 2.0 is a major update to VLC for Android, that adds numerous features, notably:
support for new releases of Android, network shares browsing and playback, video playlists, subtitles downloader, pop-up video view and support for multiwindows, an optional history panel, favorite network shares and URLs, and a merge between the Android TV and Android packages.

We also offer faster decoding, using our new asynchronous hardware decoder and we've updated most of our codecs and formats support.

Video Player

Download it now!

Features

So here is an overview of the new features.

Permissions and Android N

The first good news is that we have decreased the number of dangerous permissions that VLC was using. The only permission that is now considered as dangerous is the access to media files, which is expected for a media player.

On top of that, we support the Android N runtime permissions:

Runtime Permissions

And we still support Android 2.2!

Network Browsing

One of the most requested features, since the creation of the application, was the playback of network shares and local servers in VLC. It's mostly done :)

We support DLNA/UPnP, Windows Shares, FTP(S), SFTP, NFS protocols to discover and browse your local servers or your NAS. And we also detect associated subtitles over the network!

Network Browsing

Subtitles Download

If you want to download subtitles directly from OpenSubtitles, without going to the website, it's now directly integrated in the application:

Download subtitles

Video Playlists

As we've done for audio, we support basic video playlists.

Video Playlists

Pop-up

Another often requested feature, was the popup-video view, mostly for tablets.
It's now implemented and we do support Samsung MultiWindow and LG Dual Window extensions to allow 2 applications on the same screen.

Popup Video Window

History

The history feature that was present in the 0.9.x days is also back, but can be disabled.

You can see now all the features in our menu!

Sidebar Menu

Advanced Options

We've improved the options of the video player and we simplified the landscape/portrait modes

Video Advanced options

TV

The Android TV interface has been improved and ​was merged to​ the same package as the normal Android one."

Therefore, if your device form-factor is more suited to the TV look or you just prefer it, you can select it in the preferences.

Here is the audio player on the TV:

Audio Player for Android TV

RTL and CTL

Finally, we've done a lot of work to support Right-To-Left and Complex Text Layout subtitles. As you can see here with Malayalam:

Android CTL

We also improved the interface to support RTL layouts.

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the support, hoping that you will love this release. :)

Download it now!

Video List

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29 May 2016

This week in VideoLAN - 45

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 29 May 2016, 23:54 - VideoLAN

45th VideoLAN report

After a couple of very busy weeks, we're back on a normal schedule. Therefore, here is the weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities!

Features

VLC

We started the week by adding the support for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoders on Android in the mediacodec module.
We also fixed some MPEG-4 regressions on this module.

Hugo fixed a few issues on the UPnP module, and mostly added the support for Windows Media Sharing servers, in this module.
We also added support for subtitles over UPnP, using the work done in the core the previous week.

The Matroska demuxer got a few fixes for some regressions, but mostly implemented the fast-seek option, that is imprecise, but faster than the normal seek. This is useful when computing thumbnails, for example.

Some changes on the libVLC parsing events were done, to simplify the handling in client applications. If you were using the not-stable-yet libVLC 3.0, beware!

Near the end of the week, the core got some important changes on threads manipulation, with the introduction of vlc_thread_self() and vlc_thread_id(). The usage of futeces was introduced in the core: see Rémi's post about it.

The MMDevice audio output on Windows now supports device change events.

The Windows 64bits build will now have high-entropy ASLR activated, which should reduce the possibility of exploitation of security issues.

On Windows, we also fixed the raising issue of the Qt tooltip that we had with Qt5, the 2.2.3 DirectDraw regression and a small D3D improvement when handling large pictures.

Finally, a few H264 annex-B parsing issues were fixed and the video headers were modified to support, in the future, VR videos (nothing working yet).

Android

On the Android side, we're going on fixing issues for the 2.0.0 release.

This week, we:

  • improved the subtitles downloader, to activate it from within the player, and for any video,
  • improved the interface for scanning, the browsing and the video player animations,
  • improved the audio player on Android TV,
  • improved the speed of MKV thumbnails,
  • fixed a few remaining small issues.

All this was pushed in the update 1.9.12 on the play store. Hopefully, the 2.0.0 release will come this week. :)

WinRT / UWP

As last week, the WinRT port has been very busy again, with almost 100 commits.

As for Android, we're focusing on preparing the release, and fixing the biggest bugs people have reported.

On the libVLC backend, we fixed a few performance issues, we added more codecs support, and we improved the UPnP and SMB browsing.

On the interface side, we improved the thumbnailing and parsing process, we fixed numerous bugs that happened when resizing (and Windows 10 Mobile look) and we fixed a few crashes.

We also improved the settings and activated the access to the equalizer.

Hopefully, we'll be able to open the beta to the public soon.

That's all for this week! See you next!

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24 April 2016

This week in VideoLAN - 42

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 24 April 2016, 23:51 - VideoLAN

42nd week of VideoLAN reports

After a very busy week last week, here is another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development.

42

I'm surprised we're already at 42 and I haven't stopped doing it!

Sometimes, I'm not sure it's really useful, since I don't see many comments...

But lately, some people who don't comment on this blog told me, in real life, that I should continue, so here is a new report.

Features

VLC

Once again, we started the week with fixes for the WinRT/UWP build.

We got numerous small fixes for the Qt interface, notably for resizing issues of the main interface and in the preferences.

Marvin improved the Mac OS interface status-bar icon look and behavior.

François continued his work on the DVB scanning, notably splitting in a better way the DVB access from the TS demuxer module, which is a cleaner design.

VLC has also now gained the ability to auto-rotate the JPEG photos using the EXIF data.

Finally, a vlc_close function was introduced to be able to use posix_close instead of close when available.

Android

This week, we published version 1.9.8 of VLC for Android, adding notably subtitles download for local files, and media information on the Android TV version.
In this version, we pushed numerous fixes too, notably for repeat, metadata, resuming files and popup video support.

Then, the bindings for the keyboard and remote was changed too: left/right arrows seek, down arrow shows the controller, up arrow show the advanced options and center play/pause.

We also fixed numerous issues with RTL languages and layouts; and improved the code with more databinding.

iOS

On Tuesday, we pushed VLC 2.7.5 for iOS and VLC 1.0.4 for tvOS. Those release are mostly targeting improvements in SMB shares browsing.

Since then, we've readied VLC 2.7.6/1.0.5, focusing on improving the shares browsing, Dropbox, TouchID and the video filters.

WinRT

On WinRT, the week was quite busy.

We improved the speed and reliability of the libVLC core, notably so that we can use more features of the UWP platform and so we can have a stable 64bit build.

We also improved the interface, based on people's feedback on our screenshots, notably for the settings and the global navigation.

The video player was also re-themed and you can have PiP when browsing the application, if a video is still playing.

That's quite a bit for this week! Thanks a lot and see you next!

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14 March 2016

These weeks in VideoLAN - 38

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 14 March 2016, 00:50 - VideoLAN

38th week of VideoLAN reports

Another double-week report about VideoLAN and VLC development.

Features

VLC

After the major work of the previous weeks on the topic, the week started with quite a few fixes on credentials and dialogs.

We then repaired the Avahi service discovery (that has been broken for years), so that it can discover SMB, FTP, SFTP and NFS shares on Linux.

The Qt playlist now allows to sort by disc number, and the search field is accessible with Ctrl+K shortcut.

The Windows Direct3D11 module was improved to avoid some GPU buffer copies; this will restrict the module to versions of Windows more recent than Windows 7 SP1, since we need D3D11.1. In a similar way, we've improved the Direct3D9 for performance, device management and to get more debug information.

François made, once again, improvements on the TS module, notably about EPG and channels management; and simplified the standards (DVB, ARIB, ATSC) selection. The support for DVB subtitles was improved too.

We've then had some major MKV demuxer code cleaning, code simplification, but also some parsing speed improvements.

An external contributor gave us support for the OggSpots codec.

Petri added support for public key authentication in our SFTP module.

We fixed regressions and a crash on the MediaCodec module for Android.

Finally, we've had fixes for ALAC inside MKV issues, HTTP redirect, SFTP browsing, Qt recents, and for crashes in chroma conversions.

Android

In the last 2 weeks, we've published 3 betas of the future 2.0.0 VLC for Android: 1.9.0, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2.

It brings a lot of features, but notably:

  • network disk browsing (Windows shares, UPnP, NFS, FTP, SFTP...),
  • favorite folders and URLs,
  • video playlists (and control),
  • Full Android 6.0 compatibility (including permissions)
  • rewritten notifications and control,
  • rewritten history (permanent, not like in the 0.9 days, and disable in preferences),
  • cleaner preferences
  • lots of small improvements

It is also a merge of Android TV and Android versions, so that every device can optionally get the Android TV interface.

Please note that we have a new repository for examples on how to use libVLC on Android. It contains both a Java application and a Native application.

WinRT

On the WinRT front, we've been quite active on performance and interface.

The interface should now be mostly usable with a keyboard or a gamepad, to be more Universal.

The interface got a few refinement, notably to simplify the main user interface and use only the SlideShow in the music pages.

Hopefully a new beta quite soon.

libdvdcss

A few fixes on libdvdcss, this week, to fix the cache on Linux systems. A 1.4.1 release will probably follow.

That's all for these 2 weeks! See you next!

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21 February 2016

This week in VideoLAN - 36

By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 21 February 2016, 22:05 - VideoLAN

36th VideoLAN report

And back to a normal schedule, this post is a weekly report about what happened in the VLC and VideoLAN communities, this week.

Features

VLC

This week was a calm week on VLC, for once.

We now receive the UPnP server icon, in the service discovery, and it should be also available through libVLC.

On the TS demuxer side, we now do full sections assembling which will allow to do CRC32 checks.

At the same time, we received 2 Japanese TV fixes, one for ISDB-T, one for ARIB-25 decoding.

The adaptative module was renamed to adaptive.

So the week was mostly composed of numerous fixes for leaks, small crashes, const missing, library versions checks, extremely minor bugs and small 2.2.2 regressions.
We also got some Taglib improvements, but also leaks fixes and cleanups.

Android

In the same way, the Android part was calmer.

In the network servers view, you can now edit the favorites, but also the favorites addition and deletion actions are now available through the context menu.

The UPnP servers now have an icon, thanks to the improvements of VLC's core.

We received other fixes, like Android TV playlist sorting, a few crashes, better directories and network servers parsing.

WinRT

A contrario, the WinRT port was quite active.

At the end of the week, the first UWP version was running on x86 (Windows 10 TH2) and ARM (Windows 10 mobile).

As you can see here for Music: MusicPlayer-W10.png

and Video: VideoPlayer-W10.png

A lot of fixes for the interface got in, but also compilation issues, fixes for WP8.1;we also got important changes on the Pivot and the SlideShow and on the responsive sizing and animations.

libbluray

We've had a few fix about Fonts management and loading during BD-J menus.

There was a fix in the HDMV state machine, and a fix for the color loading.

Finally, we now have a new function bd_open_files to replace bd_register_file. This new function came with improvements on the system file access functions.

Hopefully, we'll have a new release soon.

That's all for this week! Thanks a lot and see you next!

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