The 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
Including journalists
VLC media player banned in India
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Re: VLC media player banned in India
#42The 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
Aren't India a democratic country？
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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 a…
Can you give specifics? When it comes to decoding media formats, I'd expect of the "happy path" decoding behavior of media players to follow the specification exactly, which should result in the same result. Is VLC simply throwing out certain packets rather than properly decoding them?
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#44On a slight tangent, mplayer is dead right?
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#45President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022).
We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly.
The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government?
VLC and VideoLAN are quite apolitical (we only fight against DRM and for open source) and VLC is a pure tool that can read anything.
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#46On a slight tangent, mplayer is dead right?
They had a release earlier so, no?
https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
I don't think it's under as much active development as it was 10-15 years ago, though.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#47The 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
Aren't India a democratic country？
Democratic countries ban things all the time. A more interesting question is if it is principled, and to whose benefit or cost.
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#48The list of other apps included contains an interesting app: Camscanner
The app is apparently Chinese (also mentioned on the wikipedia page [0])
IMHO making an app like this is really smart to try to gain access confidential documents when they are scanned.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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 a…
Just laughing to myself at this. A friend and I started copying long movies from the NAS to the media PC's local storage, since if I use my preferred smplayer (mpv) sometimes some hiccup will cause it to crash, but his preferred vlc will limp along and happily put out corrupted playback. Neither is a good experience. (Anyway the problem is likely the media PC itself since the issue doesn't happen on either of our personal PCs streaming from the NAS, using whichever player.)