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Feature description
It would be nice to rewrite video player to utilize libvlc or libmpv as playback backend. These will add more possibilities to video playback and support more formats.
Here is a short disclaimer: it doesn't really matter to me whether libvlc or libmpv would be used, that's why I write this request more vaguely. If you have a preference, I can edit the request. In additional information, I wrote more about both libraries from my quick research (but I'm not an Android developer, so I could miss something).
Why do you want this feature?
My main reason is to have an ability to use Fossify Gallery as a normal video player on Android. Now I have both Fossify Gallery and VLC, and I'd like VLCs playback features here (multiple format support, support for subtitles, multiple audio tracks). It may go a bit against the "Simple" principle inherited from SMT, but I hope the other reasons would be more vital for you:
Both are fully FOSS-compliant and don't use any Google related stuff (AFAIR even the Chromecast implementation in VLC is their own; but of course, we wouldn't use it because of Internet access).
libvlc lists these features, however I know that few of them require the Internet, so they wouldn't be available:
Play every media file formats, every codec and every streaming protocols
Hardware and efficient decoding on every platform, up to 8K
Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) and servers (UPnP, DLNA)
Playback of Audio CD, DVD and Bluray with menu navigation
Support for HDR, including tonemapping for SDR streams
Audio passthrough with SPDIF and HDMI, including for Audio HD codecs, like DD+, TrueHD or DTS-HD
Support for video and audio filters
Support for 360 video and 3D audio playback, including Ambisonics
Ability to cast and stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast and UPnP renderers.
Additional information
As written before, I did a quick lookup on both libraries and here's what I've found and may be useful to decide which library to choose:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libvlc-android-samples/ <- there is a sample of how to use libvlc in an Android project. As I said, I have no Android experience, but it looks simple (but I also fully understand that there may be some issues along the way when integrating it into such a big app as Fossify Gallery).
Just one thing that I couldn't really find much info about - in the Android sample of libvlc there is Internet permission granted. I haven't found anywhere if it's actually needed, and it doesn't look like the sample app uses the Internet. So, it could be a showstopper for libvlc, that's why I propose also libmpv as an alternative.
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Feature description
It would be nice to rewrite video player to utilize libvlc or libmpv as playback backend. These will add more possibilities to video playback and support more formats.
Here is a short disclaimer: it doesn't really matter to me whether libvlc or libmpv would be used, that's why I write this request more vaguely. If you have a preference, I can edit the request. In additional information, I wrote more about both libraries from my quick research (but I'm not an Android developer, so I could miss something).
Why do you want this feature?
My main reason is to have an ability to use Fossify Gallery as a normal video player on Android. Now I have both Fossify Gallery and VLC, and I'd like VLCs playback features here (multiple format support, support for subtitles, multiple audio tracks). It may go a bit against the "Simple" principle inherited from SMT, but I hope the other reasons would be more vital for you:
libvlc lists these features, however I know that few of them require the Internet, so they wouldn't be available:
Additional information
As written before, I did a quick lookup on both libraries and here's what I've found and may be useful to decide which library to choose: