[HN Gopher] The team that powers VLC
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The team that powers VLC
Author : feross
Score : 55 points
Date : 2021-12-04 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| johnvaluk wrote:
| After several false starts, I finally figured out how to
| configure the DLNA server in my router to serve files from USB-
| attached storage to the smart TVs on my LAN. Then I installed the
| VLC app on my iPhone and it discovered the DLNA server
| immediately as a UPnP File Server in the Network tab. It works
| pretty well, except it doesn't show the cover art for music
| files. The MacOS app also discovers the server, but the interface
| is completely different. Overall, I'm impressed, though I did
| have to do some online searching to figure out how to do some
| basic things like random play (you have to start playing a song
| to access the shuffle icon).
| boiler_up800 wrote:
| Any particular links that were helpful for this?
| btheshoe wrote:
| VLC is by far the best media player in existence, and I'm
| extremely thankful for the team behind it. Gives me hope that
| this whole Foss thing is actually very good for the world.
| kdjfjf7d7 wrote:
| I always wonder why people go gaga googoo over VLC, when there's
| Media Player Classic with K-lite which does a lot of the same
| things better.
|
| I remember watching 1080p blurry rips in MPC without any problems
| in 2008 while VLC would spend 1 year doing some sort of buffering
| upon opening then struggling to play the video correctly.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| VLC works on other operating systems for a start.
| zppln wrote:
| Well, I've personally always wondered why people advocate MPC.
| During like 15+ years of use I can't recall having a single
| issue with VLC. And that's from consuming basically everything
| from the VCD era and onwards. In my experience VLC has been as
| close to flawless software as one can get.
| kingcharles wrote:
| Can you tell me why MPC + K-Lite is better?
|
| I've been gone from the Internet for 8 years. Before I left I
| used VLC for everything. When I just got a laptop I was
| convinced to install PotPlayer as "being better". Having been
| gone for such a long time I assumed there was a tectonic shift
| in the media player space. Perhaps I was wrong?
| datenarsch wrote:
| MPC-HC is just as good as VLC and maybe a little less
| cluttered. It's Windows only of course, but if that isn't a
| limiting factor, then it's a very good alternative to VLC in
| my opinion.
| tasty_freeze wrote:
| From the home page:
|
| "MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch
| to something else."
| agumonkey wrote:
| I never like vlc approach. It did everything but there was
| always 7 fingercuts in the process. Or it was slower, less
| ergonomic. MPC, MPV were more my daily drivers.
| Cyph0n wrote:
| VLC is an excellent media player. It is actively developed
| and runs on many platforms.
| jjulius wrote:
| You're arguing that MPC is better than VLC because of an issue
| you encountered 13 - almost 14 - years ago?
| miohtama wrote:
| > "There are some [silly] features in VLC--some filters that
| everyone finds weird and asks [us], 'Why do you have that?' The
| answer is someone sent a good patch, so there was no reason to
| refuse it," says Kempf.
| er4hn wrote:
| Fun for VLC, a series of sharp edges for openssl
| twic wrote:
| > While anyone can submit new ideas, whether they're accepted
| or not largely depends on the quality of the code, rather
| than the utility of the feature. "We have a very difficult
| process," Kempf admits. "People don't understand why we do
| that. But the reason is we need good code, because I'm the
| one that's going to maintain it. If I don't understand it
| now, this is going to be a problem."
|
| That's the difference to OpenSSL!
| wjakob wrote:
| There is also IINA that somehow seems more snappy/better-
| integrated on macOS.
| grokx wrote:
| A funny story (among many other) related to the traffic cone
| chosen as the VLC icon.
|
| When some student was spotted consuming most of the bandwidth by
| downloading 'Linux distros' on P2P networks, such traffic cone
| would be placed in front of his room door, to designate the
| culprit. It might be one of the reason of the VLC icon choice.
|
| Told by my brother in law, who was president of the VIA[0]
| student association of the Ecole Centrale de Paris.
|
| [0]: https://viarezo.fr/en/a_propos
| [deleted]
| blululu wrote:
| The story I heard is that the association has a collection of
| traffic cones that were stolen under the influence of alcohol
| [0].
|
| [0]: http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
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