15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
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15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
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#2does network 2000 have any relation to foobar2000?
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#3In the earlier days of mainstream desktop linux (~2005), video codecs were a complete shitshow. VLC was a godsend during those times - it just worked. Still the first thing I apt-get after a fresh install.
If you're reading this team VLC, thank you for your work. Ways to contribute to VLC: http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
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#4VLC is amazing. As a friend put it, "VLC will open everything, even a can of tuna". Thanks for VLC, VLC devs.
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#5Still wished I could have VLC as an engine inside QuickTime or whatever's native to the platform/OS.
Is that possible or do you have to source the web for several obscure codecs?
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#6does network 2000 have any relation to foobar2000?
Your question had me interested, so I looked around a bit and found this forum post from "Peter" [0]:
>"foobar2000" is indeed a piece of random gibberish I had to type into "project name" box when creating a new project in MSVC, on the day all this started. IIRC I spent about 5 minutes on thinking about it - I wanted to get things working ASAP rather than worry about the name.
That forum profile has a link to Peter Pawlowski's website [1] and has been active since 2001, so I'd like to believe it's really him.
[0] - https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?PHPSESSID=j8ru3u6374lh2vvh4...
[1] - http://perkele.cc/
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#7fucking amazing software, as good as it gets. kudos.
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#8In the earlier days of mainstream desktop linux (~2005), video codecs were a complete shitshow. VLC was a godsend during those times - it just worked. Still the first thing I apt-get after a fresh install. If you're reading this team VLC, thank you for your work. Ways to contribute to VLC: http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
Even until the last few years on Windows, codecs were a shit show. You could download codec packs, but it was pretty hit and miss. VLC was amazing - it would open everything, audio just worked, and subtitles just worked.
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#9A little know fact about the VideoLAN project is that it was started so that the student organization could justify the need to replace the old networking infrastructure of the campus with a brand new high-bandwidth fiber optics network. They really wanted to deploy a fiber optic network but the school would have never approved it so they thought "OK, we need something that uses a ton of bandwidth, let's make a video streaming app".
They proceeded to start the VideoLAN project, with the VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN server, and streamed movies and public television channels to the whole campus.
Interesting how it came to benefit everybody.
Source: I studied there and had a chat with one of the original creators of the project once.
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#10I love VLC's engine, but have never been a fan of its UI, especially the configuration interface. How well separated are the UI and engine? Building a new UI for VLC seems like a fun project.