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by jbk 12y ago
We don't do it for the money :)
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by jbk 12y ago
> Were there any improvements in streaming part of VLC? Is it even supposed to work?:) Yes, but it works only in very specific cases. We're doing a lot of work on that for 3.0.0
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by jbk 12y ago
It is not pulled, it's slow to deploy on their CDN. Usually, it takes 15 minutes on Android, 30 minutes on Windows Store, and 1 hour on iOS, but today, it's very slow...
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by jbk 12y ago
> How come there's no 64-bit version yet? The 64-bit Windows binary is getting deployed on the mirror right now. > Wouldn't that improve performance for something like video-decoding? 64-bit is a tradeoff for video, less CPU
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by jbk 12y ago
So, it's the first time we do a coordinated release of VLC. We're doing it for desktop (Linux, Windows, OS X) and mobile ports (Android, Windows Phone, Windows RT, iOS) but also for Android TV. It's been quite difficult, but
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VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases(videolan.org)
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by jbk 12y ago
As far as I know, all x220 and later are.
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by jbk 12y ago
It depends, but I'm doing a lot of compilation and playback of videos, and the bottleneck is now more and more I/O and RAM than pure CPU speed.
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by jbk 12y ago
Sure, but it's 2core HT
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by jbk 12y ago
The weight isn't that different, though.
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by jbk 12y ago
Yes, my Ux31 is my main machine. I often plug an extra screen, though.
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by jbk 12y ago
> I hope the MB supports 16GB and Dell does not solder the RAM to the motherboard. On 13", all the RAMs are soldered on the boards.
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by jbk 12y ago
The MacBook Pro 13 has an option to get 512+16GB. It's a bit heavier, but not that much. The Asus Zenbook UX303LN has 12GB (it's better), but only 256GB of SSD. I don't mind the price, I need a powerful tool.
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by jbk 12y ago
It seems great, but I really need a 16GB RAM option. (At least they have the 512GB SSD) With a couple of VMs, and a webbrowser, 8 GB can get tiny, and those machines don't evolve, so I'd like to plan for a couple of years...
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by jbk 12y ago
> Are you saying it is completely impossible? Nothing is impossible, this is software. But it's far far far from being ready.
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by jbk 12y ago
> In my case? As I don't use these formats, these are signs of bad things are happening (fishing for file format specific overflows in the parser?), and it is that simple. You don't use mkv or playlists with mixed content? You
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by jbk 12y ago
> To make one thing very clear: Sandboxing is partly intended to be an additional way to distribute software. Majority of the packages come from your distribution. This is not what we understand from your GnomeOS talks and systemd "
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by jbk 12y ago
Maybe, but that's quite not portable, and driver specific, AFAIK.
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by jbk 12y ago
No it has not. 0-copy shared buffer don't exist yet for most video usecases.
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by jbk 12y ago
Yes for both.
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by jbk 12y ago
> I was afraid that this was the case. Might shared memory be a viable solution to buffer sharing? It's GPU allocated memory, so not so sure. > In any case, it makes me really happy to know that you've thought about this! If
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by jbk 12y ago
> For hardware decoders, maybe using dmabuff buffers shared between multiple processes would work? This is not portable, but this is a possible solution for Linux. But this is far from being ready, which is one of my main point :)
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by jbk 12y ago
> Why not used shared memory? Because this is not normal shared memory, this is GPU shared memory. This is hard to port.
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by jbk 12y ago
> If the file chooser is powerful enough, couldn't it be? Experience from OS X and WinRT is that they aren't powerful. > I don't use VLC playlists at all, but I could e.g. grant read-only ~/music/.../*.mp
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by jbk 12y ago
> Hopefully we can take this into account when we look into the details here. This is all I'm asking, and not the usual "I don't care about your usecase, you should just use GStreamer" that we get from the Gnome/
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by jbk 12y ago
> Is it possible to lower your requirements or change how VLC works/can do when it is sandboxed? Maybe for some, but not for others. You really need to be able to open a file without file opener. Opening optical disks is really impo
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by jbk 12y ago
And how do you share the buffers between the apps?
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by jbk 12y ago
It's a good question. But hard. > Does VLC currently have pretty clear separation between its various components? Very clear separation. One of the best, tbh. > Do you think it be much work to spin security-conscious parts like t
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by jbk 12y ago
> It all depends on what your goal is. Well, we've seen sandboxes on other desktop platforms (OSX, WinRT, ChromeOS), and so far, they all are horribly limiting. So, I'm making sure the same does not happen on Linux, before we g
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by jbk 12y ago
So far, I am not sure, but I think a flag in the manifest will allow a pure networking access ("Use the host network namespace").

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