VLC is the supreme of all open source projects, you used it in school, college, work and home.
I used it since I was a child and it has never failed on me. It didn’t matter what type of file you chucked at it, it would run it.
Do you disagree or agree with VLC being the best media player? What are your thoughts?
VLC is one of the greatest achievements of the modern era imho (along with Linux, Wikipedia, etc).
A good dev who didn’t sell out, fully FOSS, always
up-to-datebefore-the-date, no nonsense or bloatware, no UI changes every month to get more engagement, etc.This is how all products of humanity with our level of tech should be like (even non-software).
Plus it puts on a Santa hat around Christmas.
good cross platforms too.
I’ve used it from win, osx, linux, android.
It just finds the DLNA and CIFS shares from my nas so naturally in the library - better than thunar.
I just wish my “smart” TV had it.I love how when I stream music to my car a little VLC icon appears on the screen, under the album art. So proud.
haha, that is cool
The 4.0 version will make drastic changes to the UI ):
I am quite worried about that direction design… Feels like a departure of the sleek video player that we all know and love.
Great thing is that since it’s open source someone can just fork the project and continue development in a different direction.
It would be easy enough to put a toggle in the settings for a ‘classic’ mode. I can see him doing that.
Yeah, I know, and the new streaming formats technically supporting ads … What can I say - the world is a fuck & we must manage (or not manage, I’m not your boss, Im barely my boss).
Doesn’t look bad tbh. Though I don’t use VLC too often.
We don’t deserve our open source heroes, so grateful for the incredible free software ecosystem
Gimp, 7zip, blender, vlc, open office, the kernel, thousands of others, I feel like our lives have been universally improved by these inverted charity projects. The few taking care of the undeserving many.
I’ve actually moved away from vlc. It’s had some weird issues with videos that MPV doesn’t have. Plus, MPV has a much simpler interface which I like. I’ve also learned how to use ffmpeg to convert media so I don’t need that functionality from vlc anymore.
It’s still a great program though, especially for windows where there’s not many better options.
Same here 👋 still i’m a bit sad I had to move on from VLC… It was always one of the first software I would install on my setup… But that was mostly on windows.
On linux/macos, MVP seems to work way better. I’m very thankfull for all these years of service, but everything has an end and like ICQ ended recently, VLC will probably die off in a few years…
Except if they make a come back? Who knows !
I still have some videos that mpv cannot play that VLC can. Also some esoteric audio formats like SPC, only work in VLC.
VLC is the best media player, but the Linux kernel is the “supreme of all open source projects”.
My only comment is I was surprised my work - which uses Windows and has closed source software exclusively - has VLC installed on all workstations and even as the default media player as well. It’s a testament to how ubiquitous and approachable VLC is to be included in such a fashion over just Windows Media Player or some other form.
VLC is literally the savior of Windows
Yeah, though previously you did have k-lite codec pack, and media player classic (i’m talking win 2k / xp days)
VLC did just dominate though.
Your IT guy knows what’s up! Probably a purveyor of the high seas too
I mostly use mpv nowadays, but I used VLC a lot years ago. Played pretty much everything.
Let’s face it, if you install Linux (or even Windows!) for your mom, you put VLC in there.
Yes, some other tools are better at some things, but VLC is the perfect choice for the “standard” user.
VLC’s file format support is amazing for a project that rolls its own codecs, etc, but it’s missing some important features for me on the music front, primarily gapless playback and library management. I generally prefer to use software tailored to my DE. I’ve yet to find a better video player anywhere though; GNOME Videos and Kaffeine come closest and are a little easier to use, but are still far away from VLC’s capabilities.
Offtopic, but what do you use for music?
Currently Elisa for my digital music library, and for individual files I prefer to use VLC. I’ve had good experiences with Strawberry Music Player (and its predecessor, Clementine), too, and am thinking of switching back to it. And when I was a GNOME user, I preferred Lollipop.
Just wanna jump in here and recommend Quodlibet. It handles tags very well.
I used to use it, but then I switched to MPV, as it works a lot better with hardware acceleration. MPV supports more methods for hardware decoding (e.g. nvdec), and also MPV will keep the frames in VRAM when doing hardware decoding, and do additional processing and presentation using the GPU, while VLC copies everything back to system RAM and processes the frame on the CPU.
At the time I switched hardware decoding with copy-back would actually result in twice the CPU usage compared to software decoding, but that was a long time ago. Also, I would get tearing in VLC and not in MPV.
As a friend of mine said some years ago “VLC will play a slice of cucumber” that pretty much sums it up.
There’s been a bug with .flac files for quite a while now. They haven’t fixed it. Audio just stops very briefly then continues.
That’s the reason I used the VLC alpha for a long time, it’s fixed there.
Moved away from VLC for music playback since then.
I feel like it was great 10 years ago but now it’s just… kind of bloated and super buggy, and not even that compatible anymore? It’s like its only quality was it would play just about anything you throw at it, but even then there’s stuff I have to open in MPV because VLC just doesn’t play them.
I sometimes got performance issues or corrupted frames, so I mostly use mpv. It sometimes fails for some files so I need to switch to VLC to handle them.
Fully agree. Don’t forget to support our open source heros every know and then (if you can ofc).
I tried using it years ago but I didn’t like the interface so I ended up switch back to media player classic
