Seems like just an oversight or mistake given nobody's given any details
VLC media player banned in India
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Re: VLC media player banned in India
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is mpv better than vlc?
In my (and apparently other people's) experience, multiple popular options, of which mpv is one, are more responsive and produces fewer visual artifacts. Also, subjectively, I think VLC's UI can be surprising and confusing.
> and produces fewer visual artifacts
what are you watching that produces video artifacts on something like VLC or mpv?
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#33It reminds me how Turkey banned imbd.com. A musician/movie artist submitted some links to a court that the following links were streaming his movies. In fact IMDB did not stream his movies but because it was up in the search results they have banned imbd.com. And to this day imbd.com is still banned. Back in those days imbd.com had only one page without any content. Yeah, it was typo!
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#34Earlier 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?
I’ve downloaded VODs from Twitch that gave the grey screen. I thought it was a dumb glitch in the actual video file (maybe still is) but it works with MPV.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#35Maybe try banning windows?
Finally, year of the Linux desktop!
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#36Yeah, I had also faced this problem a few days back. After that I used a VPN to download it.
The last time I downloaded it in Windows 11, a popup suggested that I use the store instead, so I wonder if India also banned that installation path.
F-Droid also carries VLC, and I doubt they will ever take direction from the Indian government. On the rare occasion that VLC will not play some file, F-Droid also has the Nova Video Player, but the Nova listing carries a warning that it will track and report your activity.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#37Maybe its VLCs built in streaming services like shoutcast directory, maybe a stream on shoutcast is blacklisted in India, so they blacklisted the app. (Icecast actually)
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-stream-radio-stations-in-vlc...
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#38The Indian government (and Indian courts) is infamous for these random harebrained stunts. In the past, it has banned archive.org [1], continues to block the French ISP free.fr, etc. VLC was likely banned because people use it to watch pirated films (the same reason free.fr continues to be banned [2]). And it's plain f*cking stupid to just ban videolan.org, because it can be downloaded from numerous other websites [3], not to mention the repositories of every major Linux distribution.
[1] http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/09/statement-and-questions-r...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/74lqug/why_is_free_a...
[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=download+vlc+-site:videolan.org
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#39The Indian government has a long and well documented track record of trying to arbitrarily ban or block things they don't like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India
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Re: VLC media player banned in India
#40Whatever the Indian state doesn’t understand is either banned or taxed to death.
Shame that a country with such a young and technically literate population is governed by an army of one-finger-typing tech illiterate boomer bureaucrats.