Some basic questions

[jech]

Hello,
I'm working on a music player for touch screen devices running Windows (not RT), Android and other Linux distributions. I have written the UI and library part of my player and when I implemented the playback, I found out that QtMultimedia has many limitations. Then libVLC came to my mind since VLC is my favorite video player.

Before I start to learn the API and digging into it, I would like to ask you if it is a good idea to use this library at all. AFAIK all the platforms I'm targetting are supported so this should not be a problem. The 2 features I was missing badly in QtMultimedia are replay gain support and gapless playback.

The first one should be possible to implement since VLC supports replay gain. But what about gapless playback? Is it possible if even VLC doesn't support it?

Thanks a lot for any advice!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

No, LibVLC does not support gapless so far.

[jech]

No, LibVLC does not support gapless so far.

I was afraid about it. Is it a planned feature? I don't need it right now since it will likely take one year before I finish my player. But I would definitely like to support it in the future.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC is an open-source community project. There are no feature plans to begin with.

[jech]

VLC is an open-source community project. There are no feature plans to begin with.

I understand it. I'm just kindly asking. I thought that you might know that may be one of the developers plans to implement it or it might have a been a good idea for a GSoC project.

Unfortunately I just started with C/C++ programming some months ago and my skills are very far from being able to help with this features in VLC project.