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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?

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Never liked vlc. Only used mpv and mplayer before that. A few times I had some problems with mpv and forumposts have insisted "just use vlc", and it never helped. First time I installed it for such troubleshooting I noticed there was no manual, just a mile long help print. I just uninstalled it right there, that time.

[–] the_doktor@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

I have always had minor issues with VLC with video playback when seeking or playing certain videos that mpv has never, ever, ever had. mpv just works.

VLC is a nice piece of software but it's just never beaten mpv for me.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a great player, but I prefer smplayer on the desktop and the default player on android. Somehow the interface is a bit clunky

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What 'default' Android player? I use VLC on Android because everything else would lag when seeking to other parts of the video.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

The one in the image gallery app that comes preinstalled with the phone. On my current one it's an app by Google, on the one before it was some app by Sony.

[–] aarroyoc@lemuria.es 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

VLC ships their own codecs which is great on Windows, but a bit suboptimal on a typical Linux desktop installation since you're probably going to have GStreamer or ffmpeg available too for the rest of the software like video editors, web browsers, etc

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

FFmpeg (libavcodec) is just one of 22 codecs that VLC is shipped with

https://wiki.videolan.org/Contrib_Status#Codecs

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Winamp, I don't need you anymore.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Click to continue where you left off.

Resizes window.

Moves button off screen.

3 seconds to hit that button or you lose your place.

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have the iOS app and it cannot play my MP4 files from my phone. I don’t know what to do.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Try switch to software rendering. That, or weep, for if VLC fails you then nothing in this world will ever be right again.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I prefer mplayer—novel-length man page and all—for video, but there's nothing innately wrong with VLC. I did try it, a very long time ago, but it felt too GUI-oriented for my taste back then.

(I can think of exactly two times mplayer has failled to play a file I presented it with, and in both cases it was my own fault for not compiling in support for that codec. However, the man page is justifiably frightening.)

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

And to top it all off, release codenames are Discworld references!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It is technically illegal in most places due to copyright

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