I've ran into a few issues with VLC. That being said, I'd probably only ever replace VLC with WinAmp.
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Winamp, I don't need you anymore.
Click to continue where you left off.
Resizes window.
Moves button off screen.
3 seconds to hit that button or you lose your place.
I have the iOS app and it cannot play my MP4 files from my phone. I don’t know what to do.
Try switch to software rendering. That, or weep, for if VLC fails you then nothing in this world will ever be right again.
I have always had minor issues with VLC with video playback when seeking or playing certain videos that mpv has never, ever, ever had. mpv just works.
VLC is a nice piece of software but it's just never beaten mpv for me.
We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it
the thing can read fucking SNES soundtrack files out of the box. i’m sure it could run a marathon if you asked it to
Also plays Amiga .mod files.
It flawlessly plays me 1080p videos on my 8 year old smart phone with a 480p screen. It is the most performative app I have.
VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.
Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc..
mpv on desktop, all the way
vlc on phone, all the way
There is a CLI for VLC... just sayin'...
There is a CLI for VLC... just sayin'...
Ffmpeg guys, ffmpeg first king... And VLC golden second.
gstreamer lads, gstreamer is the god of all media pipelines
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.
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
And to top it all off, release codenames are Discworld references!
MPC-HC + Madvr is a lot nicer, VLC for mixed other videos though.
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
My only complaint about VLC is that it consistently drops the first few seconds of audio anytime I start playing a new file...
I was wondering where that issue came from
I prefer mplayer—novel-length man page and all—for video, but there's nothing innately wrong with VLC. I did try it, a very long time ago, but it felt too GUI-oriented for my taste back then.
(I can think of exactly two times mplayer has failled to play a file I presented it with, and in both cases it was my own fault for not compiling in support for that codec. However, the man page is justifiably frightening.)
Video player? Absolutely. However, it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to music. I use Strawberry for music, personally, as I like the added metadata features it offers.
Last time I tried VLC, it didn't have the ability to play music without a gap between tracks and that was a deal breaker for me.
I think the best player is mpv because it supports real-time anime upscaling with plugins
Like AI?
I think it's more like shaders with sharpness that don't look bad
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