I wonder if using a Ninite.com installer bypasses this?
It does
VLC media player banned in India
71–80 of 172 posts
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#72President 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? V…
>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? Pretty much. My ISP doesn't block half the stuff the Indian government has banned, while my mobile data provider has - it's genuinely very weird. Regarding contacting the government - maybe https://pgportal.gov.in should help? File your grievance with the section of the government yo…
> maybe https://pgportal.gov.in should help? File your grievance with the section of the government you want to complain to - in this case, I'd guess that's the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
I will do that again then.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/
Celluloid's seekbar drives me insane, and it doesn't seem to offer an option to fix it. In every other media player since the dawn of time, clicking a point on the seek bar seeks to that point. In Celluloid, it only seeks back/forward 15 seconds depending on which side of the progress indicator you are on.
Wow that's weird, I just tested that on latest Linux Mint and the seekbar had the expected behaviour.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#74It 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!
Or like how Turkey periodically freaks out when some european or north american sources publish something about the Armenian genocide.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Celluloid's seekbar drives me insane, and it doesn't seem to offer an option to fix it. In every other media player since the dawn of time, clicking a point on the seek bar seeks to that point. In Celluloid, it only seeks back/forward 15 seconds depending on which side of the progress indicator you are on.
Wow that's weird, I just tested that on latest Linux Mint and the seekbar had the expected behaviour.
Interesting, maybe there is something different about the builds being provided by Mint and Arch?
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#76The 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…
I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#77the real problem which plague's India is over zealous "babu's" aka bureaucrats. It is very difficult to do actual good things with regards to policy so they settle for the most hype thing "ban X" and label it as patriotism and feed the narrative to the media machine which takes and runs with it . Now the government gets to pat itself on the back and the "babu" gains notoriety as a patriot its a very "notice me senpai" thing. They will continue to do this cause they are looked up to by everyone in the country as a educated elite . In reality they are a bunch of cockroaches who collectively share 3 brain cells to make what i like to call "dad joke style policy". If every there is a gaping flaw in modern democracies it is the unaccountable and ever powerful bureaucrat.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#78Quoted post unavailable.
Clearly, we all need to retvrn to the Gom player era
Please refrain from making cynical comments like this. It goes against HN guidelines:
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some reports suggest that VLC Media Player has been blocked in the country because the platform was China-backed hacking group Cicada was using it for cyber attacks. Just a few months ago, security experts discovered that Cicada was using VLC Media Player to deploy a malicious malware loader as part of a long-running cyber attack campaign.
Incorrect, Cicada deployed a custom version of VLC which was hacked. Use VLC from our website and you’ll be safe.
But maybe the indian government did not care to differentiate?
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#80It is cute to see non-indians trying to guess the reason. We were like you once. It is an exercise in futility. Our government is run by monkeys. They are stubbornly uneducated about science and technology, at the same time pretending to know everything about it. How does our government take decisions? My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.
Funny and painfully ubiquitous. Probably really well-paid monkey astrologers too.
If they are succesfull, then they must be good!