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VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Post by gyomu »

cocoto wrote: post #10

The award is well deserved, VLC was a godsend a few years ago but I’m not sure what VLC brings to the table nowadays. All other players play videos just fine on Linux now. I guess VLC is only a thing on Windows because the default software is crap. On Linux almost everyone now use whatever is the default player or MPV for the nerds.

I used VLC until I looked for a backward frame step functionality. I then found this thread on the VLC forums where the maintainers explain (with bad attitude) why this functionality is technically impossible. Everyone points out that mpv supports it, but the maintainers double down and say they’re Doing It Wrong and it shouldn’t be possible.

So anyways, I switched to mpv.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=120627

Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Post by spookie »

1313ed01 wrote: post #16
cocoto wrote: post #10

The award is well deserved, VLC was a godsend a few years ago but I’m not sure what VLC brings to the table nowadays. All other players play videos just fine on Linux now. I guess VLC is only a thing on Windows because the default software is crap. On Linux almost everyone now use whatever is the default player or MPV for the nerds.

I use it on my Android phone. Is there a better FOSS media player (or better any media player?). VLC also still (or at least recently?) provides APKs you can download to install on very old Android versions. I have it installed on a few old Android tablets (and by old I mean something like Android version 4). MPV everywhere else though.

MPV is on android too. But VLC is alright

Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Post by leoh »

cocoto wrote: post #10

The award is well deserved, VLC was a godsend a few years ago but I’m not sure what VLC brings to the table nowadays. All other players play videos just fine on Linux now. I guess VLC is only a thing on Windows because the default software is crap. On Linux almost everyone now use whatever is the default player or MPV for the nerds.

Agreed except I have no idea what Jean-Baptiste actually does besides trying to run his little startup Khyber

Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Post by leoh »

cornhole wrote: post #2

I met that guy during a gsoc mentor summit and it inspired me, out of spite, to never install VLC on any device I own

I vouched for this post because I have corresponded with him and he engaged in an in unnecessarily condescending way. What are you referring to by GSOC?

Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

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Post by 1bpp »

ho_schi wrote: post #20
cocoto wrote: post #10

The award is well deserved, VLC was a godsend a few years ago but I’m not sure what VLC brings to the table nowadays. All other players play videos just fine on Linux now. I guess VLC is only a thing on Windows because the default software is crap. On Linux almost everyone now use whatever is the default player or MPV for the nerds.

Yep. VLC was not important on Linux. Because we have ffmpeg as foundation, used by mplayer and nowadays mpv. The later is my recommendation. Whether on the tty (awesome!) or on Wayland. If you prefer a native Gtk an interface is available, named Celluloid. In all these cases mpv is mighty, reliable, fits into the environment with a frugal interface. We’ve also players based on gstreamer but ffmpeg is more reliable. B…

Yeah, ffmpeg's libav is responsible for its famed codec support.
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