[Tahl]

It was in pretty early alpha when I first did my write up and I can't even remember if VLC had instructions for compiling it on their wiki, I think I had to find it on their forums. I've noticed that between builds though the quality can drastically increase/decrease and unless you get a good version it isn't really worth playing with. They might be at the point now where the video is more stable when you compile it than it use to (I honestly doubt cvpcs will put out an apk every time there is a git change, so it might be a good idea to learn to compile it yourself since it is easy). I just found that VLC was a bit too unstable and not worth it a few months ago to keep as a video browser since I wanted it for mkv files and was only getting 2 fps on them if I was lucky.

 

[Tahl]

@Blackadept I still think you should post your script over in the Linux section by the way, those forums down there could use some more posts like that in my opinion. (Scripts seem to be spread out all over the place)

Originally before I started working on my andadb installer, I was going to learn how to script with a VLC auto compiler but was a little confused with directory changes in the script. Now that I've got the hang of it I may go back and write something a little shorter that automatically pulls it from github and compiles it. I've got plenty of extra code laying around in my github to use so it wouldn't be too difficult other than just some basic commands.

 

[Tahl]

Yeah, sure bud, I'll post it over there. Tho I will more than likely redo it. The original works well but takes the basic blocks for granted. So mind as wwell rewrap it up, besides the droids repo is still dead.

And yeah you should write the vlc script. It'd be useful for those who don't know how to compile and want to try. As for the experience... lmao i think you might be able to stimble thru it..... haha jp. Tho one thing to look into is to maybe skirt the libav for the natty folks as your on mint iirc. Don't have to tho as its easy to work thru, just figured it might save you 927492 questions bout dependancies lol.

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Do you know what the exact package dependencies are? Incorporating them is the easy part, but figuring them out without installing Ubuntu is a little more difficult since the VLC documentation doesn't list anything other than the NDK, SDK, and Eclipse as being required and of course Linux Mint does a blanket install of all the codecs.