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.
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 is the best media player, but the Linux kernel is the “supreme of all open source projects”.
Linux contains (edit) proprietary (/e) binary blobs. Not sure if that disqualifies it for being supreme of “open source projects” but if the question was about “free software projects” I am certain it would.
I think the best player is mpv because it supports real-time anime upscaling with plugins
I mostly use mpv nowadays, but I used VLC a lot years ago. Played pretty much everything.
It very much needs to update its interface.
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 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.
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.
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.
My only complaint about VLC is that it consistently drops the first few seconds of audio anytime I start playing a new file…
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.
MPC-HC + Madvr is a lot nicer, VLC for mixed other videos though.
The supreme of all open source projects would be something like Linux, curl, or SQLite.
