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Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they d

Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they download it.

jbk 12y ago
We don't do it for the money :)
- pen2l 12y ago
  I also wanted to say thanks. I have faithfully loved VLC for as long as I can remember. You're awesome.
- rdtsc 12y ago
  But I am guessing it doesn't hurt either ;-) I hope you won't object, I edited my post above to include a link to the donations page.
  - jbk 12y ago
    Money is used for buying hardware, going to conferences, codec bounties and organizing a big multimedia conference. But if you have one million or two, I got great ideas :D
    - ddorian43 12y ago
      I'm curious? (but I don't have the $)
    - simonebrunozzi 12y ago
      jbk - where are you based in France, and can you tell us a bit more about your ideas? :)
      - jbk 12y ago
        I'm in Paris, and I think there are clever ways to create new business around video consumption (B2C and B2B) because there is so much frustration around watching experiences... But I can go in more details IRL.
        pestaa 12y ago
        When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already? I hope you're listening, HBO.
        jbk 12y ago
        > When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already? Well, it depends if I manage to find the funding for it :)
sz4kerto 12y ago
Many of us donated for VLC for WP/WinRT on Kickstarter in 2012 and it's still in very early phases. :(
- jbk 12y ago
  Totally untrue. Everything is released and usable. This is the point of this release. Hardware decoding is getting finished now, while we still don't have it on iOS.
  - sz4kerto 12y ago
    Sure, it is usable, though the lack of HW acceleration is 'early phase' for me.
    - jbk 12y ago
      Unfortunately, you need to complain to Microsoft that is blacklisting all the current APIs for hardware acceleration. If Microsoft was less blocking, you would have hardware decoding since a long time.
  - archagon 12y ago
    Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?
    - jbk 12y ago
      For iOS, we have a pretty good patch to do it, yes. We just have a weird but with M2TS files, but we will merge it during the next month. Expect it for 2.6.0
      - archagon 12y ago
        Awesome! Thanks for your great work.

Just wanted to say thanks for the project, great to have something like this cross-platform and open. Users should, if financially possible, donate when they download it.

jbk 12y ago

We don't do it for the money :)

pen2l 12y ago
I also wanted to say thanks. I have faithfully loved VLC for as long as I can remember. You're awesome.
rdtsc 12y ago
But I am guessing it doesn't hurt either ;-) I hope you won't object, I edited my post above to include a link to the donations page.
- jbk 12y ago
  Money is used for buying hardware, going to conferences, codec bounties and organizing a big multimedia conference. But if you have one million or two, I got great ideas :D
  - ddorian43 12y ago
    I'm curious? (but I don't have the $)
  - simonebrunozzi 12y ago
    jbk - where are you based in France, and can you tell us a bit more about your ideas? :)
    - jbk 12y ago
      I'm in Paris, and I think there are clever ways to create new business around video consumption (B2C and B2B) because there is so much frustration around watching experiences... But I can go in more details IRL.
      - pestaa 12y ago
        When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already? I hope you're listening, HBO.
        jbk 12y ago
        > When will we be able to hear more about it, if not already? Well, it depends if I manage to find the funding for it :)

sz4kerto 12y ago

Many of us donated for VLC for WP/WinRT on Kickstarter in 2012 and it's still in very early phases. :(

jbk 12y ago
Totally untrue. Everything is released and usable. This is the point of this release. Hardware decoding is getting finished now, while we still don't have it on iOS.
- sz4kerto 12y ago
  Sure, it is usable, though the lack of HW acceleration is 'early phase' for me.
  - jbk 12y ago
    Unfortunately, you need to complain to Microsoft that is blacklisting all the current APIs for hardware acceleration. If Microsoft was less blocking, you would have hardware decoding since a long time.
- archagon 12y ago
  Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?
  - jbk 12y ago
    For iOS, we have a pretty good patch to do it, yes. We just have a weird but with M2TS files, but we will merge it during the next month. Expect it for 2.6.0
    - archagon 12y ago
      Awesome! Thanks for your great work.