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It 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.
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I had an old laptop, on which VLC struggled with a video, but MPV worked fine. I like keep multiple of these critical applications around. Sometimes, for a use case, one works better than the other.
With old hardware, better use ffplay, to play a video direct from the command line with no overhead.
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Aren't India a democratic country？
Representative "democracy" with so much hierarchy that you don't have any say over anything after the vote has been cast.
There, every idiot that has no clue about the topic can vote on an important issue. Brexit is the most obvious one, but there are lots of topics where an expert is better suited at voting.
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
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> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
I know it's kind of funny to ask this, but have your parents received any weird legal mail from the Indian government that might be about the block?
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This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
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I know it's kind of funny to ask this, but have your parents received any weird legal mail from the Indian government that might be about the block?
lol. I actually checked with them :)
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This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
President 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 most likely explanation is: the government does not want to block your website, it is collateral damage. They want to block something else, but there is no technical possibility to block that without also blocking your website. This also explains variation between ISPs: there is no centralized solution for blocking. Some of them are using IP-based blocking because they have no technology that would look deeper, some of them block on the DNS level, and some on the TLS SNI level.