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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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Post by dagw »

bvr22 wrote: post #110
dagw wrote: post #96

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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.

client-side, you can use WinSCP, free, supports SCP, SFTP and FTP protocols. You can also use any piece of software on your computer to edit remote files, you juste have to configure file extensions in the parameters (like MSWord for .doc/.docx, notepad++ for .txt/.log/whatever, etc)

I use WinSCP when I can and quite like it. The big problems is that for some reason it is so much slower at downloading and especially uploading files that it really isn't usable in many cases.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by joosters »

zerr wrote: post #105
jbk wrote: post #60

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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.

Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?

What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by illbert »

jbk wrote: post #60
gesman wrote: post #49

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.

Thank you for not doing it, have my donation instead!

cheers for a great piece of software I use and love since probably around 12 years :)!

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by slipstream- »

jbk wrote: post #60
gesman wrote: post #49

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.

Would be nice to see the text of those offers, like the way the rpi foundation released the text of the offer they got (I've started to investigate the PUP ecosystem, and now said ecosystem includes the shittiest Indian winlockers and fakealert trojans, designed to get less knowledgeable user to call fake tech support)

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by xrjn »

SwellJoe wrote: post #11

I briefly operated an audiovisual services company (that lost a tremendous amount of money, but that had nothing to do with VLC), and after trying loads of players, came back to VLC. It allowed all of the stuff I needed and that many other players (including expensive commercial ones) failed at. It plays literally everything . We regularly had sponsors show up the day of the show and hand me a USB drive with their ad…

One thing that I'm having trouble with is HTTP/HTTPS streaming with VLC on Android. Almost every time it's unable to open the stream after trying to load it for a number of seconds. Does anyone else have this, or is it just me with some weird configurations?

For example, I wasn't able to stream any of the 32C3 streams, they only worked via the in-browser player.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by jsingleton »

wlesieutre wrote: post #45
gregschlom wrote: post #9

A 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…

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

A fun Easter egg is that over Christmas it wears a Santa hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#Interfaces

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #76
wlesieutre wrote: post #45

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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]

The logo itself is always secondary to what stands behind it. People attach their good feelings towards the project / service / company to the logo. If something is good, like VLC is, then the logo may represent absolutely anything. Look at the logos of successfull brands. Quite a lot of them could be called "terrible, stupid, confusing", but nobody says that because they're already firmly established in peoples' minds.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by kierank »

miahi wrote: post #75
jbk wrote: post #59

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Please share them with us :)

Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "CFHD" (No description for this codec)

(Guy who Reverse Engineered CFHD here) If you could upload a sample of your file somewhere that would be appreciated.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #85
gioele wrote: post #83

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I have a theory that I call "just one small fix". I think FOSS media players can handle more video files (not just formats) because most of the times the errors that makes them unplayable are just small mistakes in the way things are encoded. Does a certain camera produces only even timestamps? Let's check for that fix it, it is "just one small fix: one if and a division". Is that MPEG encoded with swapped croma? Let…

One "if" here a "dirty bool flag" there and sooner or later your code is unmaintainable, I think OpenSource + Review prevents this kind of code.

If you figure out early enough that you need this kind of feature, you can architecture your code in such a way that those "drive-by fixes" are actually pluggable and maintainable.
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