Any plans for supporting replicant OS?

[lerdem]

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Any plans for supporting replicant OS?

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[triallax]

@lerdem Replicant is a custom Android ROM, so it should be able to run NewPipe. Is that not the case?

[lerdem]

In general app works. I have issues with playing videos and audio. Internal newpipe player does not play video, app is crashing. Same situation with internal audio player. So for now i am using newpipe for searching and playing audio with external player(vlc). Video playing with external player(vlc) work olny with quality 144p and very slow(but its no newpipe issue, just for illustration of whole picture).

So, for all of that, i asked about supporting replicant OS.
Perhaps system is to old, and does not support some proprietary codes(or something else). That is why newpipe team does not fully support replicant OS.

Tested on phone Galaxy S III (GT-I9300)

[litetex]

Internal newpipe player does not play video, app is crashing. Same situation with internal audio player.

Crash report pls.

I'm not sure if a galaxy S3 from 2013 is working with a new OS. There might be hardware features missing.

[moriel5]

@lerdem Could you please test playback using hardware acceleration only? Such as with the AOSP Gallery or with MiXplorer's video player?

If this is due to missing codecs, then this has nothing to do with whether NewPipe supports the ROM or not, since it relies on the system libraries to playback content. As such, the situation would be that the ROM does not support the codecs, not that NewPipe does not support the ROM.

VLC, by default, plays back content with hardware acceleration, unless not supported by the ROM or hardware, in which case it switches to software acceleration, which is probably why it is so slow.

Also, you have not reported enough information for anything to be gleaned from your post.

The devs need the following from you:
• Device
• OS Version (not just which ROM it is)
• NewPipe Version

Just for clarification, I am not one of the devs, just another user like yourself.

[lerdem]

I have created bug-report #8181. Suppose it is actually a bug, because skyTube app video playing feature works fine(on the same replicant OS device).

[moriel5]

That's great, although from my experience posting bugs, it's generally a better idea to edit the OP with the information, rather than creating a new issue, since it reduces clutter for the devs.

I hope that the root of this issue is found, with the issue itself also being resolved.

[litetex]

See explanation from #8181 (comment).

TL;DR
If you use a OS that disables the GPU apps that require advanced rendering processes don't work anymore.