VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
Yes. In their day, they could play/render the media of their day. Though I promise you if I handed your computer a beefy HD codec it would struggle. “HD” doesn’t tell us the whole story. Obviously you use(d) very small proxy files or highly compressed ones, and you may be even referring to 720p. Consumer computers were not doing any sort of real HD editing in 2007 in any appreciable number unless you heavily invested in the machine.
What are you editing on/what NLE/what kind of footage? Though you said “was” which means it isn’t currently in use, so I’m guessing any answer now would be speculative as to its capabilities in 2024.
Edit: kept having new thoughts so added and redid the comment.
The media in their day, which was often HD 1080P (more realistically 720P, but that’s mostly down to what screens were available - not a restriction the PC hardware suffered from). Still the majority of TVs and monitors being sold are 1080P, or even 720P, yet 1600x1200 monitors, and the hardware that could drive them, were out in the ninetees.
Don’t neglect that PCs were juggling multiple apps(and monitors) at these resolutions by the late ninetees as well, and dedicated mpeg encode/decode was not at all uncommon. It was part of the MMX instruction set for Pentium CPUs, including the Pentium that came in my 2001-era Gateway the government gave me more or less for free.
The mid-aughts were not some ancient land of techno-boredom and tech mediocrity. This current future we find ourselves in is just extra pathetic when you hold up the bullshit we’ve accepted in exchange for pitiful progress, versus what we already had twenty years ago. The main differences now are truly down to power consumption and portability, although the iPhone came out in 2007, and my color PalmPilot played video well in 2003(limitation was storage and slow wifi)
1999: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/779230
I have been in digital media production since the mid 2000’s professionally I know more than you think I do.
I promise you in 2007 most people did not have the ability to edit 1080p unless it was highly compressed and they invested in their machine in a way that most didn’t.You are acting like everyone had $1500 machines, which they most certainly did not, and would be near the minimum folks need to invest to even begin editing 1080p footage with any regularity. The storage alone was a financial hurdle and the 5DII, which back then even made FHD capture possible for most people, didn’t even come out until what? 2010? And it was highly compressed 4-2-0 H.264.
Your pc from 2007 cannot hang in 2024 with most FHD video, which is basically the bare minimum now. 720p is barely tolerated anymore.