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On Feb 20 this year, I asked:
> Can VLC on Android play media files stored on Windows network-share?

The answer was:
> Yes, very soon. It's in the development builds

It is now 6 months later. Where do we stand on this subject?

I've just downloaded VLC 1.1.3.

Does it have the ability to browse the local lan or discover shared folders on the local lan? I believe a previous version of VLC for Android had this ability (?)

I have a win-98 machine on my local lan that is sharing a directory containing various media files (mkv, avi, mp3, flac, etc). The share method is netbios over tcp/ip. A win-7 PC on the lan has no problems seeing this share and copying files from it. ES File exporer on the Android tablet (running an...

I apparently can play 24-bit / 96 khz files - here's the log messages for one example: flac debug: decode STREAMINFO flac debug: channels:2 samplerate:96000 bitspersamples:24 flac debug: STREAMINFO decoded main debug: reusing audio output directsound debug: Opening DirectSound Audio Output directsou...

I know you guys have your hands full looking into various audio problems with VLC, but I wonder if you could have a look at these logs and give me some hints as to why I can't play any 24-bit/192 khz flac files. This is from VLC 2.1.0: main debug: processing request item: (some file), node: Playlist...

> > Tell that to the people... > > OK, but in that case, why didn't you ask them? For one thing, many seem to prefer other media players. But you'll note that the issue I had is not with the OS - it's with the hardware I have (Intel 845-based Soyo motherboard, socket-478 pentium, on-board AC-97 audi...

> ...sorry, but no one uses Win98, except you (no offense). Tell that to the people that post to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion (on usenet) and the win-98 forums on msfn.org. > I saw this topic, didn't have a reply, so I didn't reply. There seem to be many people with AC-97 audio systems buil...

Wow, thanks for all the help from you VLC people.

Maybe you could have told me to turn off the "Use float32 output" option under Audio - Output Modules - DirectX and Waveout?

I "updated" VLC from 2.0.6 and it plays video just fine, but all audio (either within video or audio-only mp3 and flac) sound horrible. I mean bizarre. Some kind of weird frequency-shift thing going on. Any hints as to anything I can do - like move or transplant codec or other files around...

The following code is from my browse.xml file: ============ for i,e in ipairs(browseTable.element._array) do print('\n<element ') for k,v in pairs(e) do print(" "..httprequests.xmlString(k).."='"..httprequests.xmlString(v).."'") end print('/>') end ============== It is ...

I am running VLC 2.0.5 on a win-98 system (with the help of KernelEx) and it seems to function just fine (I've been running VLC under win-98 for years as my primary media player). I have enabled the HTTP remote interface, and I'm running an android app (Remote for VLC) on a Polaroid 7" tablet. ...

If I have VLC running on Device-1 as a "server" with it's interface accessible via http or RC, and if I access this server using Device-2, then can I a) control Device-1 such that I can cause media output (movie, music, etc) to be played on the screen or come out of the speakers attached t...

I've turned on and off the hardware acceleration (as listed under FFmpeg / Hardware decoding check-box). I've done this while playing the same video and watching my kernel processor usage (win-98 system monitor utility). Putting a check in that box does indeed result in a 20% reduction in CPU usage.

And GPU accelerated decoding won't work with those GPUs, You need newer one. This chart: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/11036/PureVideo_Product_Comparison.pdf Indicates that the GeForce 6200 (PCIe and AGP) has H.264 decode acceleration for both Hi-def and standard-def content. So tell me why doesn't...

Minimal requirement for VLC 2.0.x is now Windows XP SP2 so don't expect any support for Windows 98 anymore.

Yea well maybe you shouldn't go pissing all over win-98 when a lot of people with their oh-so-precious Win-XP/Vista/7 are also seeing crappy performance with VLC-2.

> VLC hardware acceleration requires Vista or better.

Where exactly can I find that listed as a requirement?

Windows 98. Using forceware 81.98 drivers (which I think is giving me the "system hangs during windows shutdown" problem).

My system is P-4 2.5 ghz win-98 with a somewhat pathetic MX440 AGP video card (64 mb). I updated VLC to 2.0 at some point and then downloaded a hi-def video (1280 x 720 x 29 fps h.264) which played really poorly (stuttering and pixilation). I swapped the card to Evga Nforce 6200 (256 mb) and didn't ...

Ok, after messing around with a bunch of settings, I've got this particular video file playing pretty well. Here are some of the settings I've either experimented with (and left as default) or have changed. In the "simple" menu under Input & Codecs settings, the "Use GPU accelerat...

I swapped an MX440 (64 mb) video card for an Evga GeForce 6200 (256 mb) video card because VLC can't really play large h.264 video files smoothly on my system. I updated VLC to the latest version (2.0.1 I think) but I was still seeing this issue with version 2.0.0. This chart: http://www.nvidia.com/...

The NT-line of Windows OS's have a terrible history of being comprimized remotely via web-based exploits. Win-9x/me have never been vulnerable to network worms (for example) and many other exploits (heap buffer overflows, java shell, flash, etc) don't function correctly on win-9x/me. I don't particu...

> CD reading fails.

Then why can VLC play other content from the drive, such as files burned onto a dvd?

> TOCHDR is same as cdrom_tochdr structure which contains few data fields about the CD.

cdrom_tochdr is a unix / linux object or identifier. Does it also exist under Windoze OS?

Why can't this simple error message be explained:

cdda error: could not read TOCHDR

?????

> No, the issue is that win98 is too old. Win-98 is a win32 OS and I can run Opera 11.6 and the latest Java JRE and Flash player. Using VLC I have no problems playing any mp3, flac, avi, mkv, dts, (etc) movie or music file. PC's were playing CD-audio music since windows 3. Clearly this is a VLC prob...

Basically, I think this will explain the issue: ========= cdda error: could not read TOCHDR cdda error: no audio tracks found main debug: no access module matching "cdda" could be loaded main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1256.000 ms - Total 1256.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1256.000 ms) main err...