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News & Updates
The VideoLAN non-profit organization is joining the Alliance for Open Media, to help developing open and royalty-free codecs and other video technologies!
More information in our press release: VideoLAN joins Alliance for Open Media.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.5.1 of VLC media player today
This fifth stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.4, notably video rendering issues on AMD graphics card as well as audio distortion on macOS and 64bit Windows for certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and improves overall security.
Read more about it on our release page.
Following the recent revelations from Wikileaks about the use of VLC by the CIA, you can download the official statement from the VideoLAN organization here.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish beta version 2.1 of VLC for Android today
It brings 360° video & faster audio codecs passthru support, performances improvements, Android auto integration and a refreshed UX.
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VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.0 of VLC for Android today
It supports network shares browsing and playback, video playlists, downloading subtitles, pop-up video view and multiwindows, the new releases of the Android operating system, and merged Android TV and Android packages.
Get it now! and give us your feedback.
Development Blogs
Rémi Duraffort: Using requests with xmlrpc
Using XML-RPC with Python3 is really simple. Calling system.version on
http://localhost/RCP2 is as simple as:
import xmlrpc.client
proxy = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy("http://localhost/RPC2")
print(proxy.system.version())
However, the def[...]
Geoffrey Métais: Signing android releases with yubikey
At VideoLAN, we recently changed our signing procedure to leverage our security keys.
As explained on Yubico website, Android signing is quite easy.
On This Page
Setup
Install dependencies
Prepare configuration fi[...]
Rémi Duraffort: A common mistake with jinja2
Jinja2 is a powerful templating engine for Python.
Inside LAVA, we use Jinja2 to generate
configuration files for every boards that we support.
The configuration is generated from a template that does inherit from a base
template.
For insta[...]
Geoffrey Métais: DiffUtil off the UI thread
DiffUtil steps
Threading
Skip queued updates
Code factorization
As stated in the previous post, we do process all DiffUtil.DiffResult calculations in main thread to preserve adapter state consistency.
But in VLC, we have to de[...]
