• Fubarberry
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    8 months ago

    VLC stands for VideoLAN Client, and was originally designed as a player for network streams provided by the VideoLAN server. It also supports local media playback, which has become its most common use. It adding additional streaming functionality is just reinforcing its original purpose.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t have anything against that. The dev has the right and adding that feature can make the client more popular