10th week of VideoLAN reports
This is my 10th weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN community and VLC development teams!
It’s quite cool, that I’ve been able to not drop it :)
Compared to the previous week, this week was quite active, even if most changes were not very visible :)
Features and changes
On Monday, we removed the rest of the port of VLC on Symbian, and pushed more fixes for the OS/2 and Solaris ports.
Rémi went on with the work from the previous week about interruptible I/O in VLC’ core. We have now vlc_mwait_i11e() and vlc_msleep_i11e().
Later during the week, vlc_cleanup_run() was completely removed from the core.
On Wednesday, Thomas fixed some important Android AudioTrack issue for the HDMI output of the Nexus Player.
We removed the ATMO video filter, because of the lack of maintenance, and the limited use-case.
At the end of the week, David did a large refactor of the resume dialog on the OS X interface and François added support of Atrac3+ inside Wav files.
Finally, we fixed numerous memory leaks in D3D9 and Qt interface, we pushed HLS and XML parsing fixes, and some large cleaning of the acoustid, remoteosd, audioscrobbler, fingerprinter and addons modules.
iOS
This week, we released 2 versions of VLC for iOS on the store: 2.6.1 on Wednesday, and 2.6.2 on Saturday!
Most of the changes of those 2 versions are fixes for regressions we’ve had in the 2.6.0 release, that were reported by users.
Quite a bit of work was continued on 2.7.0, notably on hardware acceleration, and network browsing support. We’ll see when all this ends in users’ pockets :)
Android
The cleaning of the core of the Android application was continued, once again. We should now be at the end of this work:
- First, the libVLC equalizer API binding was rewritten completely.
- Then, the surface callbacks were fixed and largely reworked.
- Finally, the playback service received numerous fixes, notably for next/previous, for the video/audio switches and the notifications.
- We also fixed a large number of ANR and crashes, that were detected during the week-end.
The audio device management was changed to better support HDMI on the Nexus Player.
Finally, numerous fixes were pushed for the Android TV port, including background video playback and better search integration.
This should give us a 1.5.0 release this week of VLC for Android!
That’s all for this week! Have fun!