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?
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.
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.
It very much needs to update its interface.
My only comment is I was surprised my work - which uses Windows and has closed source software exclusively - has VLC installed on all workstations and even as the default media player as well. It’s a testament to how ubiquitous and approachable VLC is to be included in such a fashion over just Windows Media Player or some other form.
We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it
I think the best player is mpv because it supports real-time anime upscaling with plugins
Can you elaborate?
There are software and instructions
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 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.
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.
Ffmpeg guys, ffmpeg first king… And VLC golden second.
gstreamer lads, gstreamer is the god of all media pipelines
MPC-HC + Madvr is a lot nicer, VLC for mixed other videos though.
mpv+uosc is my jam these days.
The supreme of all open source projects would be something like Linux, curl, or SQLite.
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.
Only some truly superior software can afford a GUI that’s >10 years outdated :)
