vlc-android vs dav1d

vlc-android

VLC for Android, Android TV and ChromeOS (by videolan)

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dav1d

A read-only mirror of dav1d source code repository. The origin is at https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/ (by videolan)

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vlc-android		dav1d
	Project
3	Mentions	2
2,392	Stars	496
3.6%	Growth	5.0%
8.3	Activity	9.5
15 days ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Assembly
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

vlc-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of vlc-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-29.

All my Open Source App Alternatives
31 projects | /r/fdroid | 29 Mar 2023

Media Player → VLC
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music
1 project | /r/privacy | 28 Jan 2021

I use VLC and it is open source. Never had an issue with it.
Why androidx/android.support APIs are a huge mess?
3 projects | /r/androiddev | 26 Dec 2020

VLC for Android: https://github.com/videolan/vlc-android

dav1d

Posts with mentions or reviews of dav1d. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

[dav1d git] x86: Add high bitdepth AVX2 asm (massive 10-bit+ AV1 decoding performance increase for AVX2 capable CPUs)
1 project | /r/AV1 | 14 May 2021

https://github.com/videolan/dav1d/commit/1cf1b309bb2c40e25582f2ace6917d84e45f354b#diff-30d8f6be6320feeacf686be94f48c70869b52630e01ea625f0f15adc0d57c3e4R26
OVH rachète SHADOW
1 project | /r/france | 30 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vlc-android and dav1d you can also consider the following projects:

Auxio - A simple, rational music player for android

rav1e - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

Telegram - Telegram for Android source

rav1e - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder

datmusic-android - Music search, downloader & player app using Jetpack Compose

NotEnoughAV1Encodes - GUI for AV1 (aomenc, rav1e & svt-av1)

uamp - A sample audio app for Android

avif.js - :shipit: AVIF polyfill for the browser

firefox-android - :warning: This repository hosts the Firefox for Android (Fenix), Focus for Android, and Mozilla Android Components projects. It is now developed and maintained as part of Mozilla Central. See the announcement here: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcoming-migration-to-mozilla-central. ”

LibVLCSharp - Cross-platform .NET/Mono bindings for LibVLC

openreads - A mobile books tracker written in Flutter that respects your privacy.

libvlc-go - Go bindings for libVLC and high-level media player interface