I imagine he always wears this hat in public.
Thats not a hat thats just how his head is
I like his hat
Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.
Damn if dev sold vlc merch I would buy it in a heartbeat
I’ve even seen it on roads. Love that the DOT supports free software.
Logo was based on a real thing.
c/whoooosh
Reddit level humor already???
Where do you think you are?
We did it, Lemmy!
Memes folder/AlwaysHasBeen.jpg
VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it’s so performant you can easily customize it.
But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.
I tried to like MPV, I just can’t, potplayer lets me easily customize the subtitles so easily.
If I try to play 3 random videos in VLC, they all three will play perfectly. If I try those same three on anything else, at least one of them will be buggy in some way.
Yes you can argue there could be encoding problems in the video file of that buggy one, but somehow VLC just always works. Shit’s unbelievably good, so I won’t be switching.
Sadly i recently learned VLC doesn’t just always work.
About a year ago i had an issue with playing FLAC files on VLC, where there would be short periods of no audio. I had recently made some upgrades to my audio hardware, so i was looking at my new hardware/cables/config… but in the end i realized it always happened at the same point in the same files, so a software issue was more likely:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/27696
Nice quote from this issue: VLC is broken since months Use their nightly version, it has a nice new interface too, and no bugs. I don’t get how they can keep a huge breaking bug like this in vlc from MONTHS.
And neither can i… until a year ago VLC was for me the pinnacle of “it just works”. Now after them leaving a bug causing audio playback issues into their stable version for months, they broke my trust in them… they’re probably still the best option out there, but now i’ll just say probably, not for sure, and there is room for improvement…
And if it were some obscure format, sure, but FLAC? …
Well… I’d point you to this very nice blog post to help rationalize why it can take a long time.
Damn, that sucks. I’ve rarely used VLC for anything but video. I wonder if it’s not super high priority because it’s not a video bug? Sucks either way because yeah it has always seemed very solid
but in the end i realized it always happened at the same point in the same files, so a software issue was more likely
Isn’t the logical conclusion here there’s an issue with the FLAC files instead of the player?
It would be if those weren’t flac files i had for a long time and i knew didn’t have any issues.
How many porn videos do you need to watch simultaneously?
spoiler
(for me it’s 4 but I might have to go up to 9)
All of them. Duh.
I mean, I didn’t say porn nor did I say simultaneously
Not a 4K movie.
edit: the only reason I switched from VLC to potplayer was because VLC couldn’t play my 2160p videos
Hmm I’ve definitely played many 4k videos in VLC. Don’t remember having any issues.
Weird I never had issues playing 2160 porn in VLC, on occasion
Ok?
I remember the first time I encountered the Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) media type which ultimately lead me to downloading VLC as it was the only player that could handle it at the time
Same story. I even remember where the files came from - ripped from Daft Punk’s Homework album (I had and have the physical CD)
I used to use media player classic. it seemed good until I used VLC which was already way ahead of it
MPC-HC and MPV both rock, but VLC will always stay on all my machines because any time I have a problem with a video file, VLC opens that shit no issue.
I can trust VLC as software. Trust is a rare thing to have for any software these days.
Why does the UI matter for a video player? It’s not like you’re looking at it when the video is playing. How odd. I’ve been using VLC for years, I like that it doesn’t change. It just cracks on and plays the video, which is what you want in a video player. Isn’t it?
It’s the Tunnock’s Teacake of apps.
Still mpv’s
gpu-nextvideo output driver is based on VLC’s libplacebo.VLC is really slow to integrate their own development efforts though, VLC media player 4.0 has been in beta for years…
Dude should try adding some ads to the program to generate some income to spend on more dev time…
Popups, I suggest, bing bar on installation, and it runs as a service, auto-startup (non configurable).
I moved away from VLC because compared to MPC-HC, VLC was super slow. If only MPC-HC could come to Linux, that would be amazing.
MPC comes with those inexplicable keybindings, and it’s a hassle setting them, as far as I remember. Or it lacked some deal breaking customization option for me, some stuff is essential.
I got it mostly set up how I was used to. I’d be curious what you are missing?
Ease of use, I suppose. I can certainly set it up, but it would be another investment of time. I have a hundred other software that needs similar treatment, so one have to triage, if you know what I mean.
Yeah true. I probably spend a few hours finding addons and configuring.
It has become my life. I have a map on the wall with red pins and lines and everything.
As of right now VLC also doesn’t properly support Wayland, but MPV does. It’s a great piece of software!
Agree on the sentiment about VLC though, having an open source project demonstrate what is possible and stand the test of time definitely paves the way for future work and improvements.
I still have PTSD from those codec-install-infested-times… God bless VLC and it’s Author / Creator!
I rarely ever use vlc but i almost always have it installed just in case something doesn’t work. It has never let me down.
Irl saints do exist!? :-D
And yet desktop vlc dev team is absolute garbage refusing to add basic features many people asking for years.
It’s a free software have some respect
Ah come on. Think of all the good free software that sold out. This is a video player that’s cross platform, is a simple install with no additional drivers required, and has kept up with video standards as they’ve progressed over the years. it doesn’t have ads or bloatware or “premium” subscription.
Okay dev may have slowed or stopped and that’s a shame but we have gotten a damn good deal so far.
And if VLC isn’t to your liking there are good alternatives.
It doesn’t even have an email client!
It doesn’t even have autoplay next file from the current folder. The official solution is to create playlists. It’s like five extra actions instead of zero extra actions.
It doesn’t even have an email client!
actually good point. There’s so much useless garbage that no one need in a PLAYER software, so much feature creep and zero effort on ux.
How can we add AI in some shape or form?
I believe it’s open source and considering their cross-platform focus I can imagine they’re a bit wary of adding functionality that might break on one of those or requires maintenance.
It’s possible to contribute though and seem to require an agreement before merging stuff.
If all else fails you could at least create a fork where you add that basic functionality.
Hurr durr default reply “open source do it yourself”. If the feature was requested over a decade ago with overwhelming support from users, if the feature is default behavior for many other opensource players, I can only blame dev team for being stubborn and not giving a fuck about users. When I attempted to switch to vlc I’ve encountered more that one example of this insanity - many old posts asking or reporting something with replies like 5, 6, 8 years later: “still not fixed”, “still no solution”.
Also, if you take a closer look at how it’s developed, it’s not your normal OPEN open source community, it’s a walled garden as much as it can be while still being open source. Devs aren’t focused on UX at all.
So why would I bother contributing to such project? There are better players, even if not cross-platform ones.
Stop moaning, you ungrateful shit.
Sure thing! Just answer one question: why is there so many mentally challenged people (such as yourself) using lemmy? I’m really surprised to see so many idk who? Retards? Children? Manchildren? And I’m not talking about me being downvoted, I’m talking about people responding more or less like you en masse.
So you’re are upset because the software that you didn’t need to pay and still using for years don’t have a feature that you want
In that case you can always use another software, pay for it and make your demands
https://alternativeto.net/software/vlc-media-player/still using for years
never used it for a month even
Then quit bitching
lol that’s the best you’ve got?
Is this some kind of contest to you? Touch grass buddy
No, actually there arent. Not with this many features.
Some devs do what the comminity wants, some do what they think is best. Theres no reason to even care about that fact.
Hundreds of people are able and willing to work on FOSS projects. If you make a strong enough case, you can get someone to do it. If you dont want to bother, pay someone to fork it for you.
Literally dozens of possible solutions to this. I would consider staying constructive. That way you might actually get what you want.
I don’t understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.
It’s open source. Anyone could fork it.
Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.
lol and people think Andrew “no chin” Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)
Tate is a cuniform letter.
Mpc is better
While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.
They’re both free, you don’t have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.
I just keep them both installed and without any tweaking I can play any filetype in existence, and several that are not.
Isn’t MPC dead now?
There is an updated fork. It also has great support for downloading subtitles - D shortcut
😇 He’s the opposite of Spez! 😈
Now if only Youtube and all the streaming services could follow his example. It’s not like they don’t already rake in massive $$$ from subscriber fees. And I really don’t need to see more ads for cheap viagra pills, if I wanna get it up, I’ll just go buy a helium balloon.
Its GPL anyways. If he ever does accept, it would be sad but not a catastrophe.
Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.
it’s been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.
What anime are you watching that requires a playlist that large? I only assume it’s an anime because what else could possibly have 2000-4000 episodes?
I was assuming audio tracks rather than video.
Nah, not anime. It’s not playlists of a single thing is all I’ll really say about it.
😏
Two anime???
even anime honestly doesn’t typically get that big, I think the only one that maybe gets there is Dragonball? like, all of Dragonball. One Piece will probably end up there, but it just broached the 1000 mark recently.
Nope, not even Dragon Ball. And I doubt OP Will get there too, it’ll probably be over in less than 10 years.
Only a few all-ages series reached 2000 episodes, like Doraemon or Sazae-san.
