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Sorry to be a bit off-topic, but I thought with libvlc4 you wanted to get around OpenGL as it may get deprecated on Apple platforms and eg. Catalyst framework does not include OpenGL. So I am a bit curious, if there will be a OpenGL callback, when OpenGL is not used anymore. But actually I would als...

What is the source of your MPEG TS stream? I use TVVLCKit in a similar way with streams, gstreamer is forwarding from a DVB receiver and I haven't seen this huge delay (in local network). From instantiating the player instance to playback start there is a maximum of 3 to 4 seconds. For dumping such ...

Hi, with latest version of TVVLCKit or MobileVLCKit (version from PodSpec TVVLCKit-3.4.0-8da19f3b-426513d8) I experienced reproducible crashes when starting a second playback sequentially in Simulator on M1 Mac. I use VLCKit to stream MPEG-TS from DVB receivers. Starting the first stream works (more...

I was doing something similar (also in Python) on Raspberry Pi machines. I haven't seen this issue - but indeed, the Pi will usually shutdown late at night and restart in morning hours (to reduce energy use and light pollution at times, when we do not expect anyone passing by the POI), so I may have...

Hi Felix, I just prepared a python script that is downloading the tar.xz the podspec files are pointing to. I do not use the podspec itself in my project but in the past copied the URL in the podspec to download the VLCKit builds, whenever there is a new version. So I did it yesterday based on the b...

Just bringing it up again... Any progress? Anything I can already test inside VLCKit? Anything else I can do to support libVLC moving to Metal? Otherwise I am quite sure, that sooner or later VLC will die on Apple platforms and my App will as well (except I move away from VLCKit - which I prefer not...

Oh... I found an ugly workaround that at least "fooled" the automated AppStore Review for TestFlight. I added timespec_get.c to my App so the linker will resolve the symbol internally in the App and not in libc. I checked the resulting binaries and timespec_get is not shown as undefined an...

Hi, I tried to submit a new TestFlight build of my App linked against VLCKit/libVLC, but the binaries for iOS and tvOS got rejected by Apple: Dear Developer, We identified one or more issues with a recent delivery for your app, "vuplusTV" 1.2.1 (25). Please correct the following issues, th...

Catalyst Framework is basically a port of UIKit to macOS, so you mostly can port an App from iOS to macOS without replacing all the stuff to AppKit. Catalyst framework obviously is linking against different frameworks. Thus VLCKit for macOS is rejected when building an iOS project for macOS, which y...

Are there any plans/schedules to provide libvlc and MobileVLCKit based upon it to support Catalyst Framework, which introduces a "UIKitForMac" build configuration? I think many iOS apps using libVLC/VLCKit on iOS would like to welcome this effort. I could try to help even I am not that fam...

Hmm - even the patch would go into ios.m inside libvlc? At least this is not the right repository.

Hi Jean-Baptiste, it has been quite a while in this area. But finally I found a way to change ios.m (in general) without breaking existing use cases in order to fix this topic. Actually building libVLC and VLCKit from source was troublesome here and then... Idea is, that before the UITapGestureRecog...

i already uploaded a file for the bug report, please see there. I played a bit and it may have to do with contraints and autolayout. When i set the frame of the UIView passed to VLCKit manually after setting the vAR then i get a flicker but it seems to work. I need to do more experiments, but it loo...

Hi, a while ago I posted a bug report in VLCKit (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit/issues/180). During playback of a Live-TV stream that changes the VAR (Video Aspect Ratio) from 16:9 to 4:3 and back to 16:9, the switch to 4:3 is done (you get the black bars on the sides), but when the strea...

As there is no reply yet, I have opened a bug report at https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit/issues/222.
Anyway, this is not an issue of VLCKit but in underlying libVLC and VLC mobile is also affected by this issue.

Hi, i got the first reports, that with my App using VLCKit running on the new iPad Pro just available now Playback is without Audio. One has verified, that VLC has the same issue on the new iPad. One tester told me, that switching the Audio channel even results in a hang/freeze. Other Apps like Kodi...

@bubu?:
Please make also sure to check for Airplay 2 with Audio Playback on HomePod. One user of my App (using TVVLCKit) mentioned to me, that Audio has a delay of several seconds. As HomePod is using AirPlay 2, this may also go into this topic.

Hi, you might also already have seen: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/fall2017/503/ So with tvOS 11.2 with an AppleTV 4K connected to an UHD/HDR TV-Set, it is possible to change the display settings to provide best quality playback, like using HDR when the source offers it. I think, it would...

Well, patching ios.m would require to build TVVLCKit myself and I prefer to use a nightly build for releases of my App. For testing it would be OK, but not for releases. Maybe you can send an event to (= call a method of) the mediaplayer delegate, when your gesture recognizer gets triggered? In this...

OK, I finally found the gesture recognizer, it simply exists a bit later. Anyway this snippet still does not help even I remove the gesture recognizer: for ( UIGestureRecognizer *gest in self.view.gestureRecognizers ) { // ignore swipe gesture recognizers if ( gest.cancelsTouchesInView == NO ) [self...

Hi, in my App I have defined a Gesture Recognizer für Play/Pause Button on AppleTV Remote. This worked fine for several versions of TVVLCKit but since a while (months), the method defined as action in the Storyboard is not called anymore. While experimenting - same happens with a Select (Click on Re...

I had a similar issue with one of my users. My App does not use FTP but HTTP for streaming, and in this case, escaping the "@" character should solve the issue. Problem is, that an "@" is interpreted as login prefix. Imagine user = "user" and password = "p@ss"...

As I finally got a MacBookPro with TouchBar, I would like to have Controls in the Touchbar during Playback. At least controls for Play/Pause, FF, FR, and next and previous item analogous to the controls you have on the screen. But there are even more possibilities, depending of avaliable options lik...

Hi, I once again try to build TVVLCKit from source as there are no nightly builds of it and I still see issues with TVVLCKit - always keen to build the latest version. Now I experience, that cloning vlc.git into libvlc/vlc (as in buildMobileVLCKit.sh) is more than just slow - which I see always (oft...

After circumventing the deadlock I was also able to switch back to use the shared libvlc instance inside VLCKit, as the new version has the pass-through property. Well I need to check it, but yes... this allows me not to pass options when creating the mediaplayer instance. Now also many leaks have d...