VideoLAN is happy to present the new major version of VLC for Android platforms. Featuring AV1 decoding with dav1d, Android Auto, Launcher Shortcuts, Oreo/Pie integration, Video Groups, SMBv2, and OTG drive support, but also improvements on Cast, Chromebooks and managing the audio/video libraries, this is a quite large update.
VideoLAN is releasing a new major version of libbluray: 1.1.0. It adds support for UHD menus (experimental), for more recents of Java, and improves vastly BD-J menus. This release fixes numerous small issues reported.
VideoLAN is releasing a new minor version of libdvdread, numbered 6.0.1, fixing minor DVD issues. See libdvdread page for more info.
VideoLAN is very happy to announce that VLC crossed the 3 billion downloads on our website: VLC statistics. Please note that this number is under-estimating the number of downloads of VLC.
Geoffrey Métais: Announcing VLC 3.1 release!
This is the first feature update in the VLC 3 cycle.
It brings back Android auto and improves support of Oreo and Pie.
This version only supports Android 4.2 and newer. This allows us to use up-to-date SDK and restore some features like An[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d shifts up a gear : 0.2 is out!
tl;dr: dav1d has its second release
If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder:
dav1d is really ready for production,
dav1d has impressive benchmarks on ARM devices,
dav1d is now fast on 32-bit desktop processors (SS[...]
Geoffrey Métais: Android runtime permissions in one (suspending) function
This post offers a basic implementation of a single suspending function managing the runtime permission process.
Runtime permission API
If you are reading this, you should already know this API. It is only composed of requestPermissions [...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: How to use AV1 with open source tools
AV1 and muxing
If you follow this blog, you should know everything about AV1.
AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance for Open Media, composed of most of the important Web companies (Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozill[...]
[MulticoreWare] Come in to see some captivating space satellite footage using open source @videolan dav1d AV1 decoder at @NABShow -… https://t.co/5gk2y1H7zW
[geoffreymetais] Announcing VLC 3.1 release! AV1, Android Auto, TV home screen channel and more :) https://t.co/x6Q8MaF427
[videolan] VLC for Android 3.1 is out! AV1 decoding with dav1d, Android Auto, Launcher Shortcuts, Oreo/Pie integration, Video… https://t.co/FF6GUZSyPz
[videolan] libVLCSharp 0.7.0 is now out: numerous improvements on the libVLC bindings, on libVLCSharp.Forms integration on all… https://t.co/mjuIhV6Wna
[videolan] libbluray 1.1.1 is out: fixing numerous issues on Java menus support, notably with various versions of Java Runtime… https://t.co/E8kVUqdZUf