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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by kansas on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:16PM (#6065407)
VLC app used to drain my battery. I moved to Plex and Tonido after the removal. Hopefully this release doesn't drain the battery.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by 0x0 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:30PM (#6065491)
As I understand, VLC is unable to leverage the hardware codecs of the iPhone, because it doesn't use the official media frameworks, so it has to run stuff less efficiently in software.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by jbk on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:01PM (#6066855)
No, it's just that the official frameworks are either all or none. VideoToolbox framework exist but is private so far.
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