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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 giobox »

leoh wrote: post #27
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?

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

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

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Post by Thaxll »

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.

Default player sucks and MPV is close to impossible to compile yourself. VLC is still a good solution on Linux.

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

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Post by ebb_earl_co »

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #29
entrepy123 wrote: post #11

Public service announcement: VLC is on iPhone in the App Store, too. (Some people don't know this.)

I find it handy for streaming videos from my Jellyfin server with good subtitling support, then casting to a TV!

How do you manage this? Just copy the stream URL from Jellyfin Web or…?

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

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Post by hshdhdhj4444 »

entrepy123 wrote: post #11

Public service announcement: VLC is on iPhone in the App Store, too. (Some people don't know this.)

I’ve been using it to listen to actual MP3s of the music I have. I can’t find any decent MP3 player on iOS (incredibly ironic given the iPod was one of the 3 devices the iPhone was supposed to be when Steve Jobs first introduced it) and VLC is pretty good.

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

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Post by Barbing »

gyomu wrote: post #21
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…

“I, like others, arrived here through a Google search looking for this feature. Reading this thread is one of the worst decisions I've made recently. I will never have this time back and I am worse for it.”

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

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Post by doublerabbit »

hshdhdhj4444 wrote: post #34
entrepy123 wrote: post #11

Public service announcement: VLC is on iPhone in the App Store, too. (Some people don't know this.)

I’ve been using it to listen to actual MP3s of the music I have. I can’t find any decent MP3 player on iOS (incredibly ironic given the iPod was one of the 3 devices the iPhone was supposed to be when Steve Jobs first introduced it) and VLC is pretty good.

Foobar2000 is my go to on iOS. Works well just like the PCs version.

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

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Post by skydhash »

hshdhdhj4444 wrote: post #34
entrepy123 wrote: post #11

Public service announcement: VLC is on iPhone in the App Store, too. (Some people don't know this.)

I’ve been using it to listen to actual MP3s of the music I have. I can’t find any decent MP3 player on iOS (incredibly ironic given the iPod was one of the 3 devices the iPhone was supposed to be when Steve Jobs first introduced it) and VLC is pretty good.

I’m using VLC because it’s the only one that I know that can play opus. I chose the latter for lossy encoding because I have a few albums that are gapless and it’s hackish to get mp3 to support those (other than single mp3 file and cue file).
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