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Hello, I am using LibVLC and I have a problem on a Galaxy Tab 3 10.1" (the x86 one) using Android 4.4.2 (the problem didn't occur on Android 4.3) when using Hardware Acceleration. Everything works fine when disabling Hardware Acceleration (note: Dev Hardware Acceleration is always left to Autom...

Well, after searching more and re-reading the doc carefully : "Each expansion file you upload can be any format you choose (ZIP, PDF, MP4, etc.)" I only have one video, so I renamed it with the required file name and .obb extension. After pointing LibVLC to that file (originally a .mp4), L...

Hello, I am using LibVLC in my own project. I am providing a HD tutorial video with my app, which, sadly, put me way over the 50Mb limit of the Play Store, which means I have to put the video in an apk expansion. To sum up, the apk expansion is a .obb file, which is a zip file, and can be uncompress...

Thanks for the help flx42.

I just updated LibVLC to the latest version, and now everything works fine. That was probably a bug in the older version I was using up until now.

Hello, I checked at the start-up, the Hardware acceleration is at 2 (a comment says : // Automatic mode: activate MediaCodec opaque direct rendering for 4.3 and above.), which seems correct since it's a device on Android 4.4. I have code in case Hardware acceleration fails, but on this particular de...

Hello, I have some problems when trying to read a video on a Nexus 5: the video freezes after a few seconds and there is only sound (the video otherwise works well on other devices). When it starts to do that, Logcat shows : core video output: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 247 ms) The...

Ok, not supported I guess, it's understandable.

I'll do just that, thanks Edward.

Hello, I'm trying to play a video embedded in the app, using this code : Media m = new Media(vlc, LibVLC.PathToURI(videoFile.getPath())); list.add(m); vlc.setMediaList(list); vlc.playIndex(0); It works well when playing video outside the app, but when I'm trying to get a video embedded in the app, i...

That seems to be the problem, thanks flx42. The video is indeed not playing with Full Hardware Acceleration enabled. I'm using a fresh version of VLC pulled from repo and built earlier today : 02-20 14:11:26.309: D/VLC(3814): core libvlc: VLC media player - 2.2.0-git Weatherwax 02-20 14:11:26.309: D...

Hello, I have a problem using LibVLC. Here are the observations I made so far using the exact same video, using 2 different test devices (working on Nexus 7 2013, not working on Wiko Cink Five) : - works on VLC for both - works only on the Nexus for my custom app using LibVLC - does NOT crash, the v...

The compilation works fine the first time I run compile.sh. The problem is, when I change ANDROID_ABI (to support another architecture, I need to build all of them), the compilation stop working with always the same error : checking for LIVE555... no configure: WARNING: No package 'live555' found. c...

Ok, thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I'll see if I can do something on my side, since I have multiple other C/C++ files to compile. An another note, how do you compile for armeabi, armeabi-v7a and x86 all at the same time ? Even a ./compile.sh release only build the ANDROID_ABI architecture, and all the script rel...

ndk-build allow to speed the build speed by using several threads, using the -jX option (where X is the number of core you want to use). In VLC, it is set to -j1. After trying to change it to -j8, it seems there is a good reason for it : by doing so, weird compilation errors happens (mainly File Tru...

I didn't try again since the first time. Now everything is working fine for me. As I said, my main problem was merging LibVLC and cocos2dx compilation, not getting VLC to work (it did on the first try).

I think I didn't search enough before, indeed there is. There is no instructions on the wiki on how to use it, and it is buried in a lot of links here https://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC/ Anyway, I just cloned it to have a look : that won't solve my problem, which was to use LibVLC along another C++ mo...

Status update After much time spent, I gave up trying to put LibVLC on my project, and decided to do it the other way around : put my code in the VLC structure and modify the scripts to take it into account. It's hacky, but unless the VLC devs decide to create an easy way to use only LibVLC in a sep...

Thanks a lot for the help. I'll take the time to properly setup my build script to compile everything from source and report back. Edit : I looked over the mismatch between the 2 projects. The main culprits seems to be : - not the same C++ version (my project uses C++11) - not the same NDK_TOOLCHAIN...

It works fine and I can read the same video without any issue. For my own project, instead of recompiling LibVLC from source, I copied the one from VLC project and included it to be copied in my libs after building cocos2dx and the rest of my C++ code. I checked the apk : it does include the library...

What did I do that could have caused that ?

I have no clue what merge16 is and how it got there.

Thanks for your answers. Yes it's the same, I checked that it properly implement setSurfaceSize, but it isn't called before the crash (I checked using breakpoints). I used ndk-gdb to get the stacktrace, but it's weird, here is the full result using the command describe on the wiki (anonymized) : ~/P...

Hello, I am having some problems using LibVLC, here is the error I get when trying to play a video (the first 3 lines and the last are errors, there is a lot of logs before) : 01-10 18:29:00.524: E/VLC(11998): core vout display: Failed to change zoom 01-10 18:29:00.524: E/VLC(11998): core vout displ...