UPDATE: This new player has been officially released!
Last month, we posted that we were working on building a new Android player based on FFmpeg. Android continues to have many video playback bugs and fragmentation, and it’s been especially painful this year with Honeycomb (Android 3.x for tablets).
We’ve made great strides on the video front, but recently had a setback on the audio front. It seems that the audio decoder that’s part of FFmpeg chokes hard on AAC audio, which is how our courses are currently encoded. We’re hoping we can find a suitable replacement decoder, or we may end up transcoding the entire library to use MP3 audio for the Android formats. Ugh.
In any case, we’re going to be laser focused on the new Android player during the first two weeks of December and even if we have to reencode the entire library, we’ll do what it takes to get this new player shipped as soon as we can.
Have you consider the mono for android?. Or it will be the same approach of getting a FFmpeg layer below?
Eduardo, you guessed it we’d still have to solve the video player problem. At that level we’re talking about gnarly C/C++ code.
Any further update on where you are with the Android App? Thanks
Jane, yes! We have a beta program going right now for a release candidate. We’re getting very close to a release. If you’d like to try out the release candidate just send us feedback at support.pluralsight.com asking for the latest Android FFmpeg beta.