I’ve had a couple of requests to update the Android VLC package that I compiled last month. See this article if you’re not sure what I’m referring to.
Anyway, here’s the changes since the last build.
I’ve finally got around to building and installing VLC Media Player for Android by compiling from VideoLan’s git repo as per their instructions. UI wise its pretty similar to most of the video players on the Android Marketplace at the moment, however it was able to play all of the video files that I threw at it so far.
If you’re lazy to compile your own apk for VLC, download my build below.
Sometime back, I wrote a useful little PHP script that provides RSS feeds that use 3FL mirrored content for Tekzilla and Diggnation so that people in Western Australia using certain ISPs can download those content via their unmetered or WAIX quota.
Initially I was simply retrieving the original RSS feeds and updating the URLs in the original feeds to the 3FL ones, unfortunately 3FL takes quite a while to actually download the podcasts which meant often the latest podcast appears in the feed but the download link was broken.
I have since updated the scripts to only returns feed items that 3FL are already mirrored by checking if its already available on 3FL before returning the item in the xml feed.
Brinley Ang is a software engineer, sysadmin, coder, geek boy, jedi knight fragger, caffine addict, deaf meloncholic and rockstar wannabe. Listens to the sex pistols and a wide assortment of heavy metal.
