http://www.osnews.com/story/24170/VLC_for_Android_Coming_Soon Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 06:51:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?454848 http://www.osnews.com/thread?454848 And this makes me wonder what are they using as the backend, since they built a phonon backend for VLC but Qt doesn't run on Android, so I doubd they are using the backend they use for the desktop VLC. Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?454853 http://www.osnews.com/thread?454853 Phonon is not exclusive to Qt.

I imagine they've built a custom back-end for using Android's HW accelerator (or I hope they did). If the given codec isn't supported they must likely drop down into software decoding.

Ffmpeg and other codec libraries in use by VLC are fairly optimized for ARM, so this could actually make a fairly decent playback program. Battery life will be terrible if they don't use HW decoding though. Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tbcpp) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?454854 http://www.osnews.com/thread?454854 Phonon is not exclusive to Qt.

Excuse me? Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?454859 http://www.osnews.com/thread?454859 There is a QT port on Android. It's called android-lighthouse. Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JAlexoid) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?454897 http://www.osnews.com/thread?454897 VLC actually uses its own playback engine directly called libvlc. The Phonon-VLC backend allows Qt applications to playback audio using libvlc, rather than the other way round. So I guess they will continue to use libvlc on Android. Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (david.truby) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?455060 http://www.osnews.com/thread?455060 There are two versions of Phonon: the one included in QT, and the one included in KDE. They are different, although the devs do try to keep them as closely synced as possible. The KDE Phonon has more features and backends, though. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments