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VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by CommieBobDole »

I may try this out - I had to move away from VLC because getting it to properly do hardware decoding/deinterlacing on Linux has been like pulling teeth.

If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working right in VLC.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by eitland »

johnhattan wrote: post #8

I just tried today's daily Windows x64 installer, and Windows Defender is blocking it, reporting that it's infected with "Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.D!cl" Might be a false positive, but I'm not moving forward until I know.

Tried submitting it to virustotal?

Edit: I might be close to paranoid but I've seen to many cases of nice freeware or open source software getting compromised or even selling out to adware.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by jitl »

fatwah wrote: post #9

If you are on Windows use MPC-HC. Else use mpv.

This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts.

Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around in cmd.exe... It feels so not worth it, especially compared to the Netflix.com experience.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by ProxCoques »

rllin wrote: post #4

chromecast!

Chromecaaast! I might ditch my HTPC currently running OpenELEC on a Acer Revo, and just waz out movies from my phone. There's always some damn problem with OpenELEC - the whole library/file management is confusing as all hell for one thing.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by nasredin »

jitl wrote: post #17
fatwah wrote: post #9

If you are on Windows use MPC-HC. Else use mpv.

This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts. Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around…

1. You really don't need MadVR. The default install of MPC HC or BE should be fine.

2. VLC has this resizing behavior that I do not understand how people tolerate. It just feels clumsy compared to MPC which feels more native. VLC is a good backup if or when MPC fails.

What I am saying is MPC is better for watching porn than VLC.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by modzu »

CommieBobDole wrote: post #12

I may try this out - I had to move away from VLC because getting it to properly do hardware decoding/deinterlacing on Linux has been like pulling teeth. If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working ri…

+1 for smplayer
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