14th weekly (!) report of VideoLAN
This week is a bit special, since I will report about the last 2 weeks, because of lack of connectivity last week.
So here is a double weekly report of what has happened in the VideoLAN community and VLC development teams!
Features and changes
VLC
The big change of subtitles handling of the previous week involved quite a few fixes for the Closed Caption module, the tx3g codec, the freetype, quartztext and win32 text renderers. There are a few fixes pending that have yet to be merged, but let’s hope the biggest work is done.
Linked to this, we’ve added support to Closed Captions inside VC1 and AVC streams; the decoder was also improved, notably to support time interpolation. We’ve also added support to SBV subtitles (Youtube).
Once again, we’ve fixed things and added more support to the adaptive streaming module; the goal is to allow user selection in the interface of the resolution or adaptive algorithm.
The work on the code of the OS X interface went on: panels modernization, cleaning the creation and the destruction of the main interface, moving more code to ARC, etc…
Finally, we’ve fixed issues with decoding TS with encrypted programs, but also with bitrate control when encoding.
Android
The Android port got a release named 1.5.1 that we pushed as a beta on the Store.
We moved to an Open Beta system for the delivery of those beta.
We’ve added the support for a new flag on our Intent, named title, so that you can override the title when launching VLC. The intent should now even support playlists.
We’ve fixed a few bugs on controlling from the remote on the Android TV version.
We’ve also reworked completely the network browsing code on the TV.
We’ve also fixed the deletion of the playlists, and issues when resuming an interrupted scan of our library.
Expect **1.5.**2 and maybe 1.6.0 in beta soon.
iOS
VLC for iOS got quite a few changes lately.
First, the 2.6.4 version was pushed on the store, to fix a UPnP browsing issue.
Then, the VideoToolbox changes got merged into the iOS port. Hardware decoding should land in 2.7.0.
2.7.0 will also get, on iOS 9, a global search feature, using CoreSpotlight, as described in the iOS 9 preview. It should also now work fine with split-view.
Finally, some work has been started on an watchOS 2 application. More news on that later :)
WinRT
VLC for Windows Store was even more busy, in the 2 last weeks.
We finally got a release, named 1.5.0, adding numerous features, and notably targetting Windows 10.
You should read Thomas’ post about it.
In summary, new hardware acceleration, new interface, integration on Windows 10, and many more.
NB: We still support Windows RT and Windows 8.1.
That’s all for those weeks! Have fun!
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