VLC is gearing up to offer new features. Sounds exciting!
  • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is bad news. FAST streaming is an ad-riddled nightmare. VLC already supports streaming video just fine. Native support for FAST services just means native support for ads.

    VLC already includes support for IPTV streams and M3Us. If you want to load FAST channels, you can do that now using a playlist from here: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

    You’ll even get an ad-free / ad-reduced experience this way. FAST providers like Pluto and Tubi rebroadcast some TV channels and inject their own targeted ads. If you pipe the video stream into VLC, you’ll just see “commercial break in progress” filler video instead of commercials. Try it out with a local news station, they are all almost completely add free this way.

    Enjoy this while you can, I guess…

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’d rather be able to stream a file from my PC via VLC to other people with VLC.

    If that’s already a thing, then I guess I just gotta figure it out…

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Surprisingly, the popularity of this media player doesn’t seem to be going down in this age of online streaming, as the project reported a whopping 5 billion downloads of VLC across various platforms since 2005.

    How the fuck is number of downloads since TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE in any way indicative of popularity not declining?

    it would be optional for VLC users.

    “Optional” like all the “optional” features crammed down your throat on Plex?

    I’m very interested in the financials involved in this new change, and if someone is going to be filling their pockets in this transition.

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      almost 1 download for every human on earth

      “BUT IT’S NOT POPULAR! ALL THE DOWNLOADS ARE FROM JANUARY 1ST 2005 AND NOBODY EVER DOWNLOADED IT EVER AGAIN! IT’S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY BIG TRAFFIC CONE! I DON’T WANT FACTS LALALALALA” --this guy

      Big Traffic Cone is coming for you. It cautions us all. That’s why it’s orange with reflective stripes. You should have heeded it’s warning. Be afraid, very afraid.

      • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Big Traffic Cone is coming for you

        damn me if this is not the best Brand New Sentence I have seen in a long time. congrats!

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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        6 months ago

        LOL what are you even talking about? You ever heard the phrase “lies, damned lies, and statistics”? If not, you should look it up.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

    Yay VLC!
    From the tail end of the short, and easy to read article: If you want an early look at the upcoming changes with VLC 4.0, you can download (https://nightlies.videolan.org/?ref=news.itsfoss.com) the latest nightly release from the official website or the latest “Edge” build from the Snap store (https://snapcraft.io/vlc?ref=news.itsfoss.com). VLC 4.0 (Early Build) (Snap Store) (https://snapcraft.io/vlc?ref=news.itsfoss.com)

  • requiem@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Slightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”