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On Windows, VLC is quite convenient though. While I also use mpv there, for an elderly relative I have simply used and installed VLC there, as the default GUI mode is more convenient for elderly people.
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> But the real elephant in the room is that the lionshare of video is now being delivered by major media platforms like YouTube. Youtube is dubbing videos with AI for no reason whatsoever if you play the videos from the website these days.
I'm still curious how they thought that was remotely a thing anybody wanted. The cynic in me says some PM rolled out it out because they had an internal metric to hit. I know a lot of people who are bilingual (or trilingual) and they utterly loathe it.
It's pretty funny considering how google claims that their hiring practices make them hire only the most intelligent people on the planet.
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.
So many hours of fun watching videos over the years, without the constant fear that some odd codec would make the experience impossible. Thanks, VLC!
VLC was a big deal in the 2000s if you wanted to watch torrented anime. Operating systems didn't come with players with broad codec support and it was a legitimate nightmare to figure out what fly by night codec worked with whatever the bootleggers cobbled together to encode the video of the week. These days, operating systems already have rock solid video players with far less clunky UI. On Linux, video is already s…
So many hours of fun watching videos over the years, without the constant fear that some odd codec would make the experience impossible. Thanks, VLC!
VLC was a big deal in the 2000s if you wanted to watch torrented anime. Operating systems didn't come with players with broad codec support and it was a legitimate nightmare to figure out what fly by night codec worked with whatever the bootleggers cobbled together to encode the video of the week. These days, operating systems already have rock solid video players with far less clunky UI. On Linux, video is already s…
This was mitigated by vlc and mplayer, two video players that integrated most codecs as fast as they could, and it was a breath of fresh air. You just started them and any video would play, no codec issue anymore. MPlayer has not been updated for some times, and traction was lost, but VLC, although looking a bit old on the UI-side (and a little buggy on ARM Windows) is still here and is solid when someone just wants to watch a video on any platform.
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
/s obviously
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
So many hours of fun watching videos over the years, without the constant fear that some odd codec would make the experience impossible. Thanks, VLC!
VLC was a big deal in the 2000s if you wanted to watch torrented anime. Operating systems didn't come with players with broad codec support and it was a legitimate nightmare to figure out what fly by night codec worked with whatever the bootleggers cobbled together to encode the video of the week. These days, operating systems already have rock solid video players with far less clunky UI. On Linux, video is already s…
Not my experience at all. At least colleagues using Windows always run into video playing troubles in online meetings unless they use VLC.
People like VLC. Personally I am a mpv-user though. For some reason the mental model by mpv (and before that mplayer) works better for me. On Windows, VLC is quite convenient though. While I also use mpv there, for an elderly relative I have simply used and installed VLC there, as the default GUI mode is more convenient for elderly people.