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VLC media player banned in India

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Re: VLC media player banned in India

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Post by gruez »

askafriend wrote: post #17
buscoquadnary wrote: post #14

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That wouldn't even make sense even remotely like on several levels. Your realize there is no Open Source committee that sits around deciding these things, in fact Open Source at it's heart is designed to ensure the exact opposite of what you suggested. Anyone anywhere can get the code compile and run it.

You missed the joke. Chill, it's a Friday.

It's really not that obvious considering a few months ago people were seriously proposing banning russians and/or the russian government from using open source software.

Re: VLC media player banned in India

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Post by gruez »

graftak wrote: post #15
birksherty wrote: post #9

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How is mpv better than vlc?

Mpv is touted for its better video and audio playback quality, it also opens just about any video without artefacts (a grey picture in vlc anyone). Other than that it’s definately more responsive when seeking through a file, and it supports shaders to improve the perceived low res video playback quality. The cherry on the cake really is IINA, a MacOS video player that has a super responsive native UI and is basically…

>video and audio playback quality

How is this done? Without additional information the claim sounds like hdmi cable advertising to me.

>without artefacts (a grey picture in vlc anyone).

What videos are you playing that gets this issue?

Re: VLC media player banned in India

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Post by cassepipe »

graftak wrote: post #15
birksherty wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is mpv better than vlc?

Mpv is touted for its better video and audio playback quality, it also opens just about any video without artefacts (a grey picture in vlc anyone). Other than that it’s definately more responsive when seeking through a file, and it supports shaders to improve the perceived low res video playback quality. The cherry on the cake really is IINA, a MacOS video player that has a super responsive native UI and is basically…

Never ever had a problem with VLC but for Linux there's a nice GTK front end for mpv called Celluloid : https://celluloid-player.github.io/

Re: VLC media player banned in India

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Post by kitsunesoba »

gruez wrote: post #24
graftak wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mpv is touted for its better video and audio playback quality, it also opens just about any video without artefacts (a grey picture in vlc anyone). Other than that it’s definately more responsive when seeking through a file, and it supports shaders to improve the perceived low res video playback quality. The cherry on the cake really is IINA, a MacOS video player that has a super responsive native UI and is basically…

>video and audio playback quality How is this done? Without additional information the claim sounds like hdmi cable advertising to me. >without artefacts (a grey picture in vlc anyone). What videos are you playing that gets this issue?

>How is this done? Without additional information the claim sounds like hdmi cable advertising to me.

Differences in the video/audio decoding process. VLC optimizes for playing media over a network connection (hence its name Video LAN Client), where temporary dropouts and data loss are common and might cause other players to choke. The cost of this is sometimes less accurate playback.

mpv is optimized primarily for accurate playback of media from local storage, and so while it might not fare as well for network/streaming media it's generally measurably better for local media.

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