Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.
I imagine he always wears this hat in public.
VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.
lol and people think Andrew “no chin” Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)
I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it’s so performant you can easily customize it.
But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.
I tried to like MPV, I just can’t, potplayer lets me easily customize the subtitles so easily.
If I try to play 3 random videos in VLC, they all three will play perfectly. If I try those same three on anything else, at least one of them will be buggy in some way.
Yes you can argue there could be encoding problems in the video file of that buggy one, but somehow VLC just always works. Shit’s unbelievably good, so I won’t be switching.
I remember the first time I encountered the Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) media type which ultimately lead me to downloading VLC as it was the only player that could handle it at the time
Same story. I even remember where the files came from - ripped from Daft Punk’s Homework album (I had and have the physical CD)
I used to use media player classic. it seemed good until I used VLC which was already way ahead of it
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
I like his hat
Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.
it’s been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.
What anime are you watching that requires a playlist that large? I only assume it’s an anime because what else could possibly have 2000-4000 episodes?
I was assuming audio tracks rather than video.
I don’t understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.
Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.
Mpc is better
While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.
They’re both free, you don’t have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.
Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It’s an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you’re really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don’t care.
and with enough money I don’t care.
Most people are like you.
Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth’s natural history.
I’ve come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.
Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.
If most humans were like Kempf (we’re not), we’d actually have a chance.
And that’s why your picture isn’t on the front page of Lemmy 2day!
should have taken the money.
