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I remember using VLC and figuring out how to download subtitles and use them within it. I suddenly became the computer person of my family at 11 because of that
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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.
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://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98182&p=3281...
TL;DR: they decided to force the playlist to stay open all the time, thus killing "mini-player" mode; reaction to this was, unsurprisingly, uniformly negative (but expressed politely); Mr. Kempf's response was to attack VLC users; I did an end-run around him by opening a bug ticket so other developers would be made aware of the problem, and Mr. Kempf banned me for doing so; my ticket was approved and addressed by other developers, fixing the issue; Mr. Kempf tried to back-pedal pitifully.
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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.
Can't you just deactivate it?
If you wondered SFS comes from the SFSCon, which is the South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON past winners: https://www.sfscon.it/awards/
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Can't you just deactivate it?
No idea, but also why is it activated when I've been watching english content on that account for several years?
Years ago I remember complaining on HN that VLC didn't support remembering the position of the video you've already partially watched, when multiple other video players supported it. The only reply was someone saying you should contribute to the open source project yourself to fix it instead of complaining. I don't know anything about coding a multi-platform video player so I wasn't much use but not long after they r…
Tbf you could donate money to someone who does have the expertise to do it. Free software is not "free" (as in free beer). People have to build and maintain it.
Many projects have great communities, making it all fun and engaging.
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On Windows at least VLC has had better alternatives for the past 20 years, both feature and UI wise. I had frame-stepping hotkeys back in the mid-00s with Korean video players. These days I use the currently maintained fork of MPC-HC which similarly has this. On Mac it wasn't until the mid-10s that I found a decent player.
And which one is it. I’m using mpv currently.