Can VLC be configured to be more mobile friendly? (news.erebion.eu)

submitted 6 hours ago by erebion@news.erebion.eu to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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VLC works well on mobile, but the UI is not great for that.

Can it be configured to work well on mobile, such as with mobile-config-firefox and mobile-config-thunderbird?

I like having the Chromecast compatibility for example. I've watched a video streamed from my Mobian phone to a Chromecast (from a Samba share) including conversion to another format and it just worked.

Now I'd like to have improved UI, as I'm not aware of other apps that implement the API for casting to a Chromecast.

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[-] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

Vlc android is amazing. I think it can be used somehow.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 6 hours ago

The app exists on Android phones, so the capability has to be somewhere.

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

I haven't used it recently, but I used to use it on both Linux desktop and android, and the ui was so different, it seemed like it was an entirely different app.

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