VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") • Hacker News Board

Re: VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")

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Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:05 PM UTC

keeperofdakeys wrote: post #22

sliverstorm wrote: post #20

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Do you think VLC will be the better for it?

Considering Microsoft's actions with Windows 8 for ARM (Win RT), the classic desktop is probably going to be depreciated in the future. This kind of work needs to be performed at some point, and being allowed in the Windows Store is also a very nice payoff. I don't know how much work would be required for Windows 8 ARM support for VLC, but this work definitely gets it closer (knowing your UI will work is a good motiv…

And knowing Microsoft's track record with new APIs (cough Silverlight cough WPF cough COM cough), WinRT should be deprecated in, what, 5 years?

Re: VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")

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Post by zobzu » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 8:00 AM UTC

i386 wrote: post #13

zobzu wrote: post #11

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Personally I feel like the 40K GBP should go to all the devs of VLC combined. Porting to metro is only a small part of VLC itself, and is not worth 40K GBP. What makes it worth that money, and that people will pay for it, is that VLC is the hard work of all the _previous_ developers. So while I'm all for giving people money to make an open source project advance, I feel a little wrong about this very one.

What? then have no VLC for metro because they gave the kitty away and had no work done at all? Defeats the purpose don't you think?

No, it'll be done anyway. Do you think ppl got paid to make vlc or mplayer to begin with?

It seems too hard for the human mind to understand that the people who make 90% of the work for free going unrewarded is wrong. Now then again, it certainly fits the way the rest of the world works.

Re: VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")

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Post by zobzu » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 8:01 AM UTC

jbk wrote: post #26

zobzu wrote: post #11

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Personally I feel like the 40K GBP should go to all the devs of VLC combined. Porting to metro is only a small part of VLC itself, and is not worth 40K GBP. What makes it worth that money, and that people will pay for it, is that VLC is the hard work of all the _previous_ developers. So while I'm all for giving people money to make an open source project advance, I feel a little wrong about this very one.

You totally miss the point. The point is to speed up the development for Metro.

The point is to raise money, period. That's like saying a knife is not made to cut.