On: VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

[aswanson]

Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they download it.

[jbk → aswanson]

We don't do it for the money :)

[rdtsc → jbk]

But I am guessing it doesn't hurt either ;-)

I hope you won't object, I edited my post above to include a link to the donations page.

[jbk → rdtsc]

Money is used for buying hardware, going to conferences, codec bounties and organizing a big multimedia conference.

But if you have one million or two, I got great ideas :D

[ddorian43 → jbk]

I'm curious? (but I don't have the $)

[simonebrunozzi → jbk]

jbk - where are you based in France, and can you tell us a bit more about your ideas? :)

[jbk → simonebrunozzi]

I'm in Paris, and I think there are clever ways to create new business around video consumption (B2C and B2B) because there is so much frustration around watching experiences...

But I can go in more details IRL.

[pestaa → jbk]

When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already?

I hope you're listening, HBO.

[jbk → pestaa]

> When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already?

Well, it depends if I manage to find the funding for it :)

[pen2l → jbk]

I also wanted to say thanks. I have faithfully loved VLC for as long as I can remember. You're awesome.

[sz4kerto → aswanson]

Many of us donated for VLC for WP/WinRT on Kickstarter in 2012 and it's still in very early phases. :(

[jbk → sz4kerto]

Totally untrue. Everything is released and usable. This is the point of this release.

Hardware decoding is getting finished now, while we still don't have it on iOS.

[sz4kerto → jbk]

Sure, it is usable, though the lack of HW acceleration is 'early phase' for me.

[jbk → sz4kerto]

Unfortunately, you need to complain to Microsoft that is blacklisting all the current APIs for hardware acceleration.

If Microsoft was less blocking, you would have hardware decoding since a long time.

[archagon → jbk]

Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?

[jbk → archagon]

For iOS, we have a pretty good patch to do it, yes.

We just have a weird but with M2TS files, but we will merge it during the next month. Expect it for 2.6.0

[archagon → jbk]

Awesome! Thanks for your great work.