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Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?
What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?
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Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives
everyone moved to alternatives Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.
The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.
Since several people have said "it opens everything!" I thought I'd list a couple it doesn't handle: HYMT codec (multithreaded version of Huffyuv, useful for lossless capture of HD) UT Video codec various versions (also a multithreaded lossless codec set, I believe some versions VLC can play... but not the last several), oh and some FFV1 variants (clearly ffmpeg's fault, but still). All the above work fine with MPC-H…
Send me those files. We should have fixed both in the last version.
A little know fact about the VideoLAN project is that it was started so that the student organization could justify the need to replace the old networking infrastructure of the campus with a brand new high-bandwidth fiber optics network. They really wanted to deploy a fiber optic network but the school would have never approved it so they thought "OK, we need something that uses a ton of bandwidth, let's make a video…
I briefly operated an audiovisual services company (that lost a tremendous amount of money, but that had nothing to do with VLC), and after trying loads of players, came back to VLC. It allowed all of the stuff I needed and that many other players (including expensive commercial ones) failed at. It plays literally everything . We regularly had sponsors show up the day of the show and hand me a USB drive with their ad…
As a VJ, that's what I love about VLC too. Even now, I cringe when I go to professional film screenings, and between each film the screen reverts to a Mac desktop wallpaper and some person in the projection booth is frantically twiddling with their mouse to click the play button in QuickTime.
QuickTime doesn't even have a damned playlist function which is why they were using iTunes. But, iTunes has some of the most bizarre behaviors I've ever dealt with, and awful playlist functionality, in general.
My first reaction was, "Fifteen, shmifteen! When's that Chromecast support you promised coming?" In all seriousness, as they say, VLC just opens everything. Thanks for it!
> https://github.com/robUx4/vlc/tree/cc_master_intf_snd2 Should be what you want.
A little know fact about the VideoLAN project is that it was started so that the student organization could justify the need to replace the old networking infrastructure of the campus with a brand new high-bandwidth fiber optics network. They really wanted to deploy a fiber optic network but the school would have never approved it so they thought "OK, we need something that uses a ton of bandwidth, let's make a video…
This mirrors what appears to be Cisco's acquisition strategy—pick up companies that makes things which use loads of bandwidth (UC etc). It's a smart move, sell products which inflate bandwidth requirements and conveniently be there with shiny new infrastructure to support those new found needs.
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On a related note, VLC's traffic cone icon comes from a club member drunkenly stealing one, which then ballooned into the organization collecting them and eventually inspired the icon. https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9792
Interesting. It’s a terrible, stupid, confusing symbol for this project. [edit] if the point is to be cryptic and appealing to nerds, it succeeds in spades [/edit]
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Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.
Holy shit, people still use Quicktime? Apologies for my OS X / iOS ignorance, but I haven't seen that in years on Windows / Linux.
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Interesting. It’s a terrible, stupid, confusing symbol for this project. [edit] if the point is to be cryptic and appealing to nerds, it succeeds in spades [/edit]
and the part-eaten fruit of the apple tree is any more wonderful, smart, and enlightening a symbol for a computer / phone company?