I'm glad VLC exists but I've had videos not play properly on VLC that do play properly in other players so I've stopped using VLC.
VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
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No idea, but also why is it activated when I've been watching english content on that account for several years?
I never experienced subs I could not deactivate. And why they activated it? Well, because they own their plattform and do what they want with it. (I think they have done worse)
Nobody here was talking about subtitles.
Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
#94Will he accept it? I wouldn't. https://danielpocock.com/en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity...
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I never experienced subs I could not deactivate. And why they activated it? Well, because they own their plattform and do what they want with it. (I think they have done worse)
Nobody here was talking about subtitles.
Then about what?
I assumed that was meant with "dubbing".
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As a Windows user, I never used VLC because I didn't like its UI and not having the "click to pause" was a big issue when you control a media center with a mouse. So I used Media Player Classic without any issues for years. When I moved to Linux Desktop, it came with VLC so I tried and forced me to use that damn "space to pause". But half my videos had issues playing. Being in KDE, I switched to Haruna. It's ugly, bu…
Have you tried SMPlayer? It's a lot like MPC
Never heard about it before, I'll have a look; thanks!
Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody here was talking about subtitles.
Then about what? I assumed that was meant with "dubbing".
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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.
I can see it being useful. Lots of people who don't know English are out there.
Re: VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
#100So 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…
> It feels like wrestling with 1998 in trying to use VLC these days. It's got a real WinAmp feel to it.
What do you mean by that? To me, it's like any other application - you double-click the file (or run `vlc file.mp4`), and it plays. That the UI is not oversimplified is a cultural thing, VLC decided to cater to those that prefer to have the extra controls.