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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 mistermann »

jbk wrote: post #63
pkroll wrote: post #50

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.

For years I have been infuriated by the window auto-resizing to match the video resolution issue, despite there being a checkbox to prevent resizing. Despite just quickly testing now and seeing that it seems to work (as it has on most prior occasions) I would happily bet a sizeable sum of money that no, in fact it isn't actually working and some future video I open will resize the window to a brazillion x gazillion. I really wish this would be fixed completely once and for all some day.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by jbk »

slipstream- wrote: post #114
jbk wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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)

mail me and I can send some of those.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by jbk »

slazaro wrote: post #95
jbk wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, we do.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

Kluny wrote: post #12
dopeboy wrote: post #3

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.

That's the least of QT's problems. The idiotic way that modern QuickTime container files handle audio-visual sync has caused the entire format to fall out of favor within the professional video industry.

The video and audio streams within such files are, by design, out of sync, and requires playback within QuickTime to actually get the file to play back properly, as the content creator intended. Workarounds exist, and some playback software can handle the problem internally, but VLC in particular is not always able to.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by ryanlol »

bvr22 wrote: post #108
hobs wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to say: an example that's fairly reproducible, any video recorded with Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is playable in WMP but not VLC. However, I just tried it is fixed already, I love VLC.

I had the same problem, and the fix was quite obvious once you read it: if you have 64bits OBS and 32bits VLC, VLC crashes when you open the video. Use both 64bits or 32 bits software, and you're fine.

But that obviously doesn't solve the actual problem.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by ryanlol »

moonshinefe wrote: post #99
Kluny wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've been using OS X on my macbooks for like 2 years now, until now I had no idea it even existed anymore.

Re: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

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Post by odbol_ »

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…

As a VJ, that's what I love about VLC too. Even now, I cringe when I go to professional film screenings, and between each film the screen reverts to a Mac desktop wallpaper and some person in the projection booth is frantically twiddling with their mouse to click the play button in QuickTime.
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