Last week in VideoLAN - 51

3 August 2016

51st VideoLAN report

So, after a few crazy weeks, I’m coming back to a more regular schedule for my weekly reports about VLC and VideoLAN.

Features

VLC

Decoder fallback

The major change, during last week, was the possibility to restart the audio decoders when the audio device changes.

This is very useful when you switch from normal decoders to SPDIF/HDMI pass-through for DTS, Dolby and related codecs.

In the past, VLC could only restart the filters, not the decoders, so our Dolby and DTS decoders were actually filters. This was finally changed and now decoders are decoders.

For those who don’t understand what all this means, it means that it will help us support more formats for pass-through over HDMI, like DolbyDigital+ or DTS-HD.

Modules

We’ve fixed the green line that appears only on AMD GPUs on Windows. This is scheduled for the next Windows update.

I’ve implemented the support for browsing FTP remote directories, so that it behaves similarly to SFTP or SMB.

On Windows, we’ve added the support for hardware decoding of 10bits HEVC , using DxVA and D3D11.

We also pushed improvements to the prefetcher module and to our TTML support; and we’ve fixed issues for DVD menus, SAT>IP protocol and HLS protocol.

Finally, please note that the license of the UPnP module was switched from GPL to LGPL.

Android

On Android, we’ve fixed a few issues related to old devices, and we’ve improved the libVLC Java bindings to support statistics.

WinRT

Last week on WinRT, we’ve removed all the code that was focusing on older versions of Windows.

The codebase now support only Windows 10 Universal with its Anniversary Edition version.

That’s all for this week!

Thanks for the support and see you soon!

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 4 May 4040, 6:49 by Alex

    Just installed Anniversary Update. Lots of improvements. Some are very visible, like the Edge improvements (especially swiping gesture support and extension). But there’s a lot of under-the-hood improvements too.

    Looking forward to the next release of the UWP VLC. The first one was quite impressive. Oh and when the XB1 gets the update, it should be possible to release UWP VLC for that too.