Why exoplayer over VLC ?

[AntoineBarj]

Hello there .

My Jellyfinserver is set up on a docker image on my NAs, that has poor transcoding performances.
But as I run a Jellyfish client on my Nvidia shield, I did not expect any need of transcoding.

Indeed, any video file can be played flawless on the Android TV VLC app (that I currently use as external player from the jellyfin client). HDR, 4k, various subs and files types .
From a newbie like me, I wondered what could be the strategical reasons that lead to use exoplauer lib I et the VLC one. I naively think that the flawless experience on the VLC app should be the same on jellyfin ;). Right now, the playback is natively struggling for 80% of my mkv files, with either HDR or subs (or both).

Tl,DR : what is the reason behind choosing the exoolayer library over the VLC one ?

BTW : congrats to the Dev for this maintained project !!

[hendrik1120]

Security issues and a pain to work with, also no stable release since 2022
See:
#2534
#3639

[BenMcLean]

Another reason to prefer exoplayer over VLC is that exoplayer supports audio passthrough for surround sound while VLC on Android only does stereo. Note I said on Android. VLC for PC handles surround sound audio fine while, in my experience, VLC for Android never does.