VLC is the supreme of all open source projects, you used it in school, college, work and home.
I used it since I was a child and it has never failed on me. It didn’t matter what type of file you chucked at it, it would run it.
Do you disagree or agree with VLC being the best media player? What are your thoughts?
I didn’t expect to click on a VLC appreciation thread agreeing that it’s awesome only to end up maybe switching to MPV based on the comments, but such is life I guess.
I will remember it just like I will remember winamp, as one of the greats of its time.
VLC has pretty mediocre rendering, it stutters a lot even on a fast PC, or renders with grey artifacts. MPV is open source, renders much clearer and faster and can be used as the backend for any simple or advanced GUI video player.
That said, VLC was great back in the early 2000’s, when it and it alone could open basically any media file and file containing media including mkv. Nowadays every video player does that.
it’s a mediocre media player, i don’t really use it anymore. blender, Linux, ffmpeg, gcc, llvm, V8, cpython are all far more important just to name a few
mpv+uosc is my jam these days.
We don’t deserve our open source heroes, so grateful for the incredible free software ecosystem
Gimp, 7zip, blender, vlc, open office, the kernel, thousands of others, I feel like our lives have been universally improved by these inverted charity projects. The few taking care of the undeserving many.
I think the best player is mpv because it supports real-time anime upscaling with plugins
Can you elaborate?
There are software and instructions
Like AI?
I think it’s more like shaders with sharpness that don’t look bad
There’s been a bug with .flac files for quite a while now. They haven’t fixed it. Audio just stops very briefly then continues.
My only complaint about VLC is that it consistently drops the first few seconds of audio anytime I start playing a new file…
VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.
Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc…
There is a CLI for VLC… just sayin’…
It is technically illegal in most places due to copyright
Wut
They don’t pay Royalties to the patent holders. Not really illegal but still interesting. You a extremely unlikely to get sued for using VLC
I assume you’re referring to codecs like H.264, which is owned and licensed by Apple. But are you sure using those codecs to play media is illegal? I thought it was only required to pay to encode.
I can’t imagine that Firefox is illegally breaking the law too…
Its a grey area
so many questions. what patents? how should they know you use it?
It is a grey area
I had one big problem with VLC, in that it could not figure out which of my monitors I wanted the video to run fullscreen on. That was infuriating to the point I switched to MPV, and I’m very happy with it
It very much needs to update its interface.
I’ve been waiting for a Dark Mode for VLC for over a decade. It’s absurd. Yes I know some skins sorta do that, but they all suck because they change everything around and remove buttons and options instead of just making the default UI darker.
VLC 4.0 will be released with a massive change in the interface…eventually.
Will it be before or after Star Citizen?
If I cared one wit about either of them, I’d put money on VLC. If only because Star Citizen won’t make it before the heat death of the universe.
MPC-HC + Madvr is a lot nicer, VLC for mixed other videos though.
VLC is one of the greatest achievements of the modern era imho (along with Linux, Wikipedia, etc).
A good dev who didn’t sell out, fully FOSS, always
up-to-datebefore-the-date, no nonsense or bloatware, no UI changes every month to get more engagement, etc.This is how all products of humanity with our level of tech should be like (even non-software).
The 4.0 version will make drastic changes to the UI ):
I am quite worried about that direction design… Feels like a departure of the sleek video player that we all know and love.
Doesn’t look bad tbh. Though I don’t use VLC too often.
Great thing is that since it’s open source someone can just fork the project and continue development in a different direction.
It would be easy enough to put a toggle in the settings for a ‘classic’ mode. I can see him doing that.
Yeah, I know, and the new streaming formats technically supporting ads … What can I say - the world is a fuck & we must manage (or not manage, I’m not your boss, Im barely my boss).
Plus it puts on a Santa hat around Christmas.
good cross platforms too.
I’ve used it from win, osx, linux, android.
It just finds the DLNA and CIFS shares from my nas so naturally in the library - better than thunar.
I just wish my “smart” TV had it.I love how when I stream music to my car a little VLC icon appears on the screen, under the album art. So proud.
haha, that is cool
It’s a great player, but I prefer smplayer on the desktop and the default player on android. Somehow the interface is a bit clunky
What ‘default’ Android player? I use VLC on Android because everything else would lag when seeking to other parts of the video.
