You will need a recent Linux distribution to build VLC. Dev will build build LibVLC, Medialibrary, and then build the application with these binaries.SignedRelease also, but it will allow you to sign application apk with a local keystore.Release & Debug will get LibVLC and Medialibrary from Bintray, and build application source code only.VLC-Android build relies on gradle build modes : Build the whole app (LibVLC + Medialibrary + Application).Build the application and get libraries via gradle dependencies (JVM build only).Native libraries are published on bintray. VLC engine (LibVLC) for Android is licensed under LGPLv2. Android libraries make this, de facto, a GPLv3 application. VLC for Android is licensed under GPLv2 (or later). aar directly from Maven or build from source. You can use our LibVLC module to power your own Android media player.ĭownload the. Ability to cast and stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast and UPnP renderers.Support for 360 video and 3D audio playback, including Ambisonics.

Audio passthrough with SPDIF and HDMI, including for Audio HD codecs, like DD+, TrueHD or DTS-HD.

Support for HDR, including tonemapping for SDR streams.

Playback of Audio CD, DVD and Bluray with menu navigation.

Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS.) and servers (UPnP, DLNA).

Hardware and efficient decoding on every platform, up to 8K.

Play every media file formats, every codec and every streaming protocols.

LibVLC is the Android library embedding VLC engine, which provides a lot of multimedia features, like:

medialibrary : Medialibrary gradle module.

libvlc : LibVLC gradle module, VLC source code will be cloned in vlc/ at root level.

buildsystem : Build scripts, CI and maven publication configuration.

application : Android application source code, organized by modules.

extension-api : Application extensions SDK (not released yet).

Here are the current folders of vlc-android project:

VLC on Android plays all the same files as the classical version of VLC, and features a media database This is the official Android port of VLC.

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