Application Specific Information

Table of Contents

• What control point applications have been tested with CherryRenderer?
• What control point application should I use?
• How do I use the embedded VLC player?
• How do I differentiate between the JavaFX player and the embedded VLC player?
• What video formats are supported by CherryRenderer?

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What control point applications have been tested with CherryRenderer?

• Tested and works:
  • BubbleUPnP
  • Localcast
  • All Screen
  • All Cast
  • Web Video Caster

Note that all of the above are tested on Android only. Please do let me know if other applications work as well.

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What control point application should I use?

• Just choose whichever works for you. Each app works slightly differently than others.

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How do I use the embedded VLC player?

• If you have a normal installation of VLC media player, the required native libVLC libraries should be automatically detected and used.
• If the native libraries are not automatically detected, you can manually set the libVLC directory in Menu - Preferences - Advanced.
  • On Windows, the libVLC directory would be your VLC installation directory. Example: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC
  • On Linux, the libVLC directory would be the distro dependant lib folder. Examples: /usr/lib64, /usr/local/lib64
  • On macOS, the libVLC directory is inside VLC.app. Example: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib

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How do I differentiate between the JavaFX player and the embedded VLC player?

• You will see an indication on the end of the title of the window. It will say [JFX] if the JavaFX player is used and [VLC] if the embedded VLC player is used.
• Here's an example screenshot of CherryRenderer when using the JavaFX player:

• Here's an example screenshot of CherryRenderer when using the embedded VLC player:

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What video formats are supported by CherryRenderer?

• If you are using the default JavaFX player, CherryRenderer supports a few popular video formats as per javafx.scene.media docs.
  • These are the .fxm, .flv, .m3u8, .mp4 and .m4v video formats.
  • There are also certain limitations to these formats, especially for the .m3u8 format, of which please refer to the javafx.scene.media docs.
  • You may also need to install additional codecs depending on your operating system. Please refer to Oracle's Certified System Configurations page and scroll down to the JavaFX Media section.
• If you are using the embedded VLC player, CherryRenderer theoretically supports all playable video formats that VLC player supports as per VLC's wiki page.
  • Notable video format support when using the embedded VLC player are the MPEG-DASH .mpd format and less limitations on the HLS .m3u8 format.