[Android] LibVLC android commit 7733732: no vout on mpeg4/m2ts

[Thomas Guillem]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 16:07, ben wrote:
> Le 06/01/2015 17:21, ben a écrit :
> > Hello VLC Android list,
> >
> > With vlc's git up to commit 7733732, i am updating a Fragment that
> > implements IVideoPlayer, but cannot get any picture out with a
> > mpeg4/m2ts, with HWAccel both enabled/disabled.
> >
> > [log]
> > D/VLC﹕ core window: looking for vout window module matching "any": 1
> > candidates
> > D/VLC﹕ core window: no vout window modules matched
> > D/VLC﹕ core video output: Opening vout display wrapper
> > D/VLC﹕ core vout display: looking for vout display module matching
> > "androidsurface": 4 candidates
> > E/VLC﹕ android_surface vout display: Could not initialize
> > libandroid.so/libui.so/libgui.so/libsurfaceflinger_client.so!
> > D/VLC﹕ core vout display: no vout display modules matched
> > E/VLC﹕ core video output: video output creation failed
> > [/log]
> >
> 
> What surprises me is that VLC (vanilla) dos not behaves the same way:
> 
> [log]
> D/VLC﹕ core video output: Opening vout display wrapper
> D/VLC﹕ core vout display: looking for vout display module matching 
> "androidwindow": 4 candidates
> D/VLC﹕ android_window vout display: using opaque
> [/log]
> 
> Here, VLC is looking for "androidwindow" instead of "androidsurface" and 
> then the video displays.

androidwindow is the new vout used for newer android devices.
I think your VLC is up to date but not your vlc-android.

vlc-android changed a little, check
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/android.git;a=commit;h=6cb263e66f238c3fefbbbaac606076abf29025cf
and all commits from 11/15 - 11/17 here:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/android.git;a=shortlog;h=2d4db56373bf631cf77f8e0a7a1a1865d5c67588

> 
> The almost sole difference with my implementation is that mine use a 
> Fragment instead of an Activity (VLC) to display the video:
> In my implementation, LibVLC instance is inited with the application's 
> context, but the IVideoPlayer interface is implemented by the Fragment.
> 
> I will try if the error still occur in a simple plain Activity.
> 
> - Ben
> 
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