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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 majewsky »

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…

> With [...] mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides

Huh? You mean on Windows or what? I never had to write a config file to use mpv (on Linux).

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

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Post by boomboomsubban »

visarga wrote: post #27
solarkraft wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree about the UX, but it's just so damn reliable.

Yeah, but it can't skip 5 seconds ahead. I mean, ostentatiously, it can, but with horrible lags and jerking. I can't watch a video where I don't have fast skip. MPlayer, a much worse player than VLC, had instant skip for all file formats. Youtube has instant skip. But VLC doesn't even use the forward/backward keys for skipping, it uses Alt-Cmd-Arrow or some arcane combo. Clearly they dropped the ball on skipping.

Pretty sure there's an option to change the skip method, and shortcut keys are definitely configurable.

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

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Post by RaleyField »

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.

VirusTotal doesn't show anything. Can you provide url & sha256 of the installer?

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

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Post by milankragujevic »

kuschku wrote: post #25
rllin wrote: post #4

chromecast!

Now how long until Google breaks the API again? They did that the last time people started implementing Chromecast renderers in open source projects.

Do you have a source for that? I thought Google only broke the APIs when people tried to clone Cchromecast functionality in another device form factor, or create an emulator for a Chromecast, not just implementing the normal "Cast to" functionality.
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