The VideoLAN Forums

The bug in question is a Samsung driver bug, as revealed by the testing. VLC functions perfectly well on all other phones/tablets w.r.t. this problem. Graphics firmware can be hard to debug sometimes, so it may be that VLC has stumbled across a poorly tested combination of circumstances. Note that ...

How are other players not affected?

Do you have crystal balls for sale?

Why the disingenuous/irrelevant response?
The default android video player is open source, so that may be a good point of reference.
Does VLC make use of the GPU in some way that others do not?

Well, we did some testing and you can see the results below: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8781#comment:8 Basically VLC's output reaches Android perfectly fine, as seen from the debugger, but it fails to make the jump due to a bug in the Samsung hardware overlay. This was verified as VLC wor...

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8781 Thanks for the replies, Jean-Baptiste and Edward. I reviewed the trac ticket. I was wondering how it was determined that it's a Samsung bug. Could it have something to do, rather, with hardware that VLC isn't expecting? I only ask because VLC (and Joe VLC P...

I'm running a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (SCH-I545), Android 4.2.2, Snapdragon S600 (APQ8064T). I am running http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-armv7/VLC-debug-20130912-0105.apk. I have videos taken with the camera that are H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10), resolution 1920x1080, that if I am hold...

Aside from no GUI controls unless in full screen mode (double click on the video), the default NPAPI plugin mostly works for me in firefox & chromium.

Using the mp4 example above, I can watch the video, but I cannot scrub to different parts of the video once the video has ended.

Hey Jean-Baptiste, That's good for you, but adds nothing to my request for any advice...on this particular matter... I sincerely/naively thought this was the place to be with these kind of questions about "exotic developing endeavours"...but maybe I'm wrong ;-) Well, maybe you or anyone c...