VLC for Fremantle?
 

Hi all,

I see by this videolan forum thread that VLC is coming to Fremantle. I would like to ask any of the developers to begin uploading what they have to extras-devel for testing.

If anyone who knows the developers, can you ping them and ask them to help here?

Even if there's no GUI yet, it would be great to have the most famous media players in the repositories.

Thanks!

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

I tried to build that but atleast version 1.0 didnt work out...some libraries in Fremantle are too old for VLC as usual :)

Maybe someone has a better luck :)

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

sampppa: did you try the "base port" (no UI) from Rémi Denis-Courmont that you can find here?

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

Aha! Rémi just posted some .debs to try out on his website.

From the thread I linked to above:

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

It might require even more space than mplayer :)

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

No kidding! :eek:

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

Anyone with a screenshot of VLC?

TIA.

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

Well, since there is no GUI, all you'd see is the video you're playing... Not very useful.

EDIT: And it would have to be a photograph, rather than a screenshot, because video doesn't seem to be captured by screenshot apps.

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

Good news:

VLC for Maemo 5 plays videos more smoothly than mplayer. The optimizations must be paying off.

More good news:

It is automatically put into /opt, leaving room in your base filesystem for more apps.

The bad news is, of course, that it doesn't have screen blanking, nor does it have a GUI yet. The keypresses don't work right.

But for playing difficult-to-play videos, it works great. If you don't mind tapping the screen every so often. I haven't tested streaming yet. But that should be seriously cool...

Re: VLC for Fremantle?
 

Urgh, I can only hope MPlayer will get more optimizations. If not, I don't care since not using VLC is a matter of principle. :)