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well, people shouldn't be using crap like VLC in the first place.
Why do you consider VLC crap, and what would you suggest as an alternative? Bonus points if the alternative works on all three operating systems that I use (OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu.)
mplayer (and GUIs such as mplayer-osx, smplayer, etc)
MPC-HC (windows-only)
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Oh, I feel no sense of being wronged at all, this is not emotion speaking, it's cool-headed business analysis. There's no such thing as free, someone always pays, and if you think you are getting something for free, that only means that someone else is paying for it for you, and perhaps they want something in return. You can understand this and adjust your expectations accordingly, or you can get upset without really…
Downvotes are incontrovertibly free.
On the one hand you have an open Source project with little funding relying on a small group of volunteers acting mostly out of a sense of social responsibility and on the other hand you have dishonest rip-off artists able to make money for free with little or no practical sanction applied.
Its not really google's job to police the web (Note I'm not condoning Google's behaviour). The extent to which they do this depends on how well that policing activity aligns with their business interests.
The root problem is profit Vs non-profit in an environment with dis-interested / conflicted and or toothless regulatory bodies.
IMHO Money is metaphor for power and as long as VLC/VideoLAN is a 'not-for-profit' organisation they will have problems.
Should Google somehow run background checks on every advertiser to see if they're breaking some US law? (or other countries' laws?) What broken laws should justify removal? Should this be before or after they allow them to advertise? If before, this would inconvenience the majority of advertisers who are legitimate. If after, should Google investigate every incoming report of illegitimate advertising? Or, how many re…
And nobody asked Google to background check - the offenders were reported, and Google whitewashed the report. That raises suspicious eyebrows because Google is making money off of the offenders.
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Why do you consider VLC crap, and what would you suggest as an alternative? Bonus points if the alternative works on all three operating systems that I use (OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu.)
There are only ~two decent alternatives: mplayer (and GUIs such as mplayer-osx, smplayer, etc) MPC-HC (windows-only)
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There are only ~two decent alternatives: mplayer (and GUIs such as mplayer-osx, smplayer, etc) MPC-HC (windows-only)
i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good things about potplayer but i've never used.
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That's not SEO. That's spam. SEO is about optimizing portions of your website for people using a search engine. Lumping all SEO together is akin to lumping all hackers together as criminals. I equate the techniques to those used in journalism. You want to front load the article with the most important information. The least important information should be at the end.
...or lumping hackers and crackers together as "all hackers."
but it's competing against (spammy) sites like "vlcdownload.org".
If they had vlc.com or changed their name to videolan, then it'd be better IMHO.