Android TV version 0.17

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Well it clearly was working good enough for some people (me included). Unfortunately you will never hear about a feature worked well before you remove it... So it's usually a bad a idea to see only the issue side.

I also think wasn't a great idea to remove libvlc, looking at the commit it removed a total for ~1100 lines of code. Total code is 65906 lines.

But I can relate that having to maintain the libvlc interface while rewriting the playback code is a drag that the devs didn't feel worth their time.

The straw that broke the camel's back in this case was that LibVLC went unmaintained for 2 years which means that it has some unpatched security issues.