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15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.

You can use VLC on OSX as well. It works great!

When watching h.264 VLC consumes lots of CPU when QuickTime doesn't. I don't know why.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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On a related note, VLC's traffic cone icon comes from a club member drunkenly stealing one, which then ballooned into the organization collecting them and eventually inspired the icon. https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9792

Interesting. It’s a terrible, stupid, confusing symbol for this project. [edit] if the point is to be cryptic and appealing to nerds, it succeeds in spades [/edit]

True the origins are cryptic, but it's become pretty iconic and recognisable. For a nice example take a look at this tweet (the author is semi-famous for selfies captioned with "Come to in the next 15 minutes if u want an ass-kicking") and try to imagine a similarly funny/engaging tweet about any other piece of video playback software.

https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/525044698071957505

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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I 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.

Try mpv, it's essentially a player with no UI - it has a protocol UIs can use to be implemented on top of it.

mpv grew on me something fierce these past two weeks. Open quick, none of the options I honestly don't care about and open source. Good stuff.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC stand above the crowd. Kudos, hats off and happy birthday!

> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

The message I'm getting here is that we the users should probably send you more money.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Since several people have said "it opens everything!" I thought I'd list a couple it doesn't handle: HYMT codec (multithreaded version of Huffyuv, useful for lossless capture of HD) UT Video codec various versions (also a multithreaded lossless codec set, I believe some versions VLC can play... but not the last several), oh and some FFV1 variants (clearly ffmpeg's fault, but still). All the above work fine with MPC-H…

Send me those files. We should have fixed both in the last version.

Slightly off-topic: Do you also look for files that play okay, but the audio and video are off-sync? Also, files where audio stops playing when seeking, for a few seconds? That seems to happen a lot to me.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives

everyone moved to alternatives

Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC stand above the crowd. Kudos, hats off and happy birthday!

> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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In 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

Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.

Holy shit, people still use Quicktime? Apologies for my OS X / iOS ignorance, but I haven't seen that in years on Windows / Linux.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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In 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

VLC has been one of the best bets for a video player and I've used it for years. I've never contributed before though, so I'll gladly do it for their 15th year.
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