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?
I have the iOS app and it cannot play my MP4 files from my phone. I don’t know what to do.
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.
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.
Only some truly superior software can afford a GUI that’s >10 years outdated :)
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
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 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.
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.
The supreme of all open source projects would be something like Linux, curl, or SQLite.
mpv+uosc is my jam these days.
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.
We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it
It very much needs to update its interface.
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.
