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.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.
Doesn’t look bad tbh. Though I don’t use VLC too often.
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).
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 !
VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.
Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc…
There is a CLI for VLC… just sayin’…
There is a CLI for VLC… just sayin’…
mpv on desktop, all the way
vlc on phone, all the way
VLC has pretty mediocre rendering, it stutters a lot even on a fast PC, or renders with grey artifacts. MPV is open source, renders much clearer and faster and can be used as the backend for any simple or advanced GUI video player.
That said, VLC was great back in the early 2000’s, when it and it alone could open basically any media file and file containing media including mkv. Nowadays every video player does that.
It very much needs to update its interface.
VLC 4.0 will be released with a massive change in the interface…eventually.
Will it be before or after Star Citizen?
If I cared one wit about either of them, I’d put money on VLC. If only because Star Citizen won’t make it before the heat death of the universe.
I’ve been waiting for a Dark Mode for VLC for over a decade. It’s absurd. Yes I know some skins sorta do that, but they all suck because they change everything around and remove buttons and options instead of just making the default UI darker.
We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it
I think the best player is mpv because it supports real-time anime upscaling with plugins
Like AI?
I think it’s more like shaders with sharpness that don’t look bad
Can you elaborate?
There are software and instructions
I didn’t expect to click on a VLC appreciation thread agreeing that it’s awesome only to end up maybe switching to MPV based on the comments, but such is life I guess.
I will remember it just like I will remember winamp, as one of the greats of its time.
Ffmpeg guys, ffmpeg first king… And VLC golden second.
gstreamer lads, gstreamer is the god of all media pipelines
I mostly use mpv nowadays, but I used VLC a lot years ago. Played pretty much everything.
the thing can read fucking SNES soundtrack files out of the box. i’m sure it could run a marathon if you asked it to
It flawlessly plays me 1080p videos on my 8 year old smart phone with a 480p screen. It is the most performative app I have.
Also plays Amiga .mod files.
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.
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?
Just wanna jump in here and recommend Quodlibet. It handles tags very well.
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.
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.
