VLC media player

for Nokia N900 / Maemo 5

This is pre-release. There are known major bugs left. If in doubt, you should wait for a more official release.

We need your help. See the open issues list below.

This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the license. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

 Name                                     Size  Description
 Parent Directory                           -   
 libvlc-dev_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb     174K  Debian package
 libvlc5-dbg_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb    6.6M  Debian package
 libvlc5_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb        479K  Debian package
 vlc-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb        1.1M  Debian package
 vlc-player-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb 5.9M  Debian package
 vlc-player_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb     1.6M  Debian package
 vlc_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.changes        1.4K  
 vlc_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb             46K  Debian package

Contact: vlc-devel mailing list

User-visible issues

Qt4 UI slow

When Qt4 is enabled, the video horrendously slow.

No easy installation

.deb files must be installed manually.

No support on VideoLAN.org

The N900 user agent string must be matched, and a page written.

Video artificats in windowed mode

There are green lines on the video in windowed mode (full-screen mode works fine).

Pause drains battery

Well-known VLC design issue. Use stop instead of pause.

Developer issues

Incomplete Debian packaging

Clean target does not work (due to contribs). Building requires network access (due to contribs too).

No X deinterlacing optimizations

Chroma not optimized for encodingFront VGA camera V4L2 support broken

OMAP frame buffer output crashes

For unknown reasons, the VLC omapfb triggers a segmentation fault. Use XVideo instead.

FFMPEG MPEG2 Video slow

libavcodec behaves slower than libmpeg2 even though libmpeg2 has poor ARM/NEON optimizations.