[vlc-devel] [PATCHES] Symbian support

[Kaarlo Räihä]

2011/1/4 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>

>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:09:57 +0200, Kaarlo Räihä <kaarlo.raiha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > IMHO supported mobile platforms ATM should be iOS,
>
> iOS is closed so there should not be any port in any way.
>
> > Android and Symbian^3.
>
> > Doing MeeGo port should be almost trivial,
>
> You seem to omit the user interface problem. Also while compiling for MeeGo
> should be much easier than on any other mobile platform, I expect packaging
> will be tedious: VLC requires a lot of libraries that are provided by Linux
> distributions, but probably MeeGo (do I need to cite FFmpeg?).
>

AFAIK MeeGo is QT compatible. And since device resolutions are most likely
800x480 or higher the current QT4 interface will fit there quite nicely. And
at least ffmpeg-0.5.2 is ported to MeeGo already.


>
> So it should be much easier but still far from trivial, at least in time
> investment.
>
> > Blackberry marketshare is getting smaller and smaller,
>
> That's irrelevant. BlackBerry is Java only, so it's a non-starter.
>
> > webOS doesn't have big enough device base ATM,
>
> Last I heard, webOS was not open for native applications. If this is true,
> it is a non-starter.
>
>
PDK should run C/C++
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/03/09/palm-webos-pdk-beta/


> > Bada is rising
>
> I have no _technical_ informations on Bada. I would not be surprised if it
> was closed for native applications, but I really really do not know.
>

Native apps are written with C++, they also have OpenGL ES support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_(operating_system)


>
> > and also Windows Phone 7 is rising
>
> AFAIK, WP7 is only open for .Net code, which is why VLC is only for older
> WinCE. From what I have heard, market penetration of WP7 is abysmal at the
> moment.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net
> http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
>
> _______________________________________________
> vlc-devel mailing list
> To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:
> http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/attachments/20110104/b96d50f6/attachment.html>