VLC has been downloaded over a billion times • Hacker News Board

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by CrLf » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

gaving wrote: post #6

I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version. MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.

I wish they had left the OSX interface alone... The old one was mostly a player, now it's supposed to be a media center... The new UI really is horrible.

Well, now it's on the same league as the Windows version, whose UI has always been pretty bad.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by Terretta » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #2

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc. It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go. Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on…

Not to mention VLC 2.0 it breaking the helper libs needed for DVD backup. The fix should have been automatic:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1165549/fix_handbrake_dvd_ri...

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by orta » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

gulbrandr wrote: post #8

gaving wrote: post #6

I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version. MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.

Why is MPlayerX better than VLC on OSX? (Sell it to me)

Personally I've found the keyboard commands to be easier to remember in MPlayerX ( I watch a lot of streams so its dealing with networks ) than for VLC.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by praptak » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by lmm » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

praptak wrote: post #14

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Doesn't it just use mplayer's libraries for playing DVDs? Seems like they would be a better target for donation (particularly since most efforts to support new formats e.g. bluray seem to happen there)

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by kinleyd » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

vasco wrote: post #5

No Linux stats. That's too bad! I would really love to see how they would compare to mac and windows download counts.

VLC has been my go to media player on Linux for years now and I still love it.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by diminish » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:46 PM UTC

I am using VLC on linux from time to time, together with others. it is good to know it plays almost everything with a simple UI.

Congratulations to the team. for 1 billion downloads. you rock.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by keeperofdakeys » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:49 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #15

praptak wrote: post #14

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Doesn't it just use mplayer's libraries for playing DVDs? Seems like they would be a better target for donation (particularly since most efforts to support new formats e.g. bluray seem to happen there)

No, it uses FFMPEG (among other libraries), which mplayer also use. The thing is, the libraries don't fit together like jigsaw puzzles, you have to do a lot of work to glue them together. VLC also tries to make a stable library for others to use, in the form of libvlc.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by option_greek » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:54 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #15

praptak wrote: post #14

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Doesn't it just use mplayer's libraries for playing DVDs? Seems like they would be a better target for donation (particularly since most efforts to support new formats e.g. bluray seem to happen there)

Both mplayer and vlc along with many other open source media players use codecs from ffmpeg project.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by obtino » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:57 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #15

praptak wrote: post #14

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Doesn't it just use mplayer's libraries for playing DVDs? Seems like they would be a better target for donation (particularly since most efforts to support new formats e.g. bluray seem to happen there)

Both VLC and MPlayer use ffmpeg as one of the many decoding modules. The ffmpeg module (libavcodec) decodes many of the codecs out there.