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0x0 on July 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and full...

As I understand, VLC is unable to leverage the hardware codecs of the iPhone, because it doesn't use the official media frameworks, so it has to run stuff less efficiently in software.

jbk on July 18, 2013 [–]

No, it's just that the official frameworks are either all or none. VideoToolbox framework exist but is private so far.

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