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?
VLC is one of the greatest achievements of the modern era imho (along with Linux, Wikipedia, etc).
A good dev who didn’t sell out, fully FOSS, always
up-to-datebefore-the-date, no nonsense or bloatware, no UI changes every month to get more engagement, etc.This is how all products of humanity with our level of tech should be like (even non-software).
Plus it puts on a Santa hat around Christmas.
The 4.0 version will make drastic changes to the UI ):
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/vlc-4-0-sneak-peek-a-look-at-its-work-in-progress-new-interface/
I am quite worried about that direction design… Feels like a departure of the sleek video player that we all know and love.
Great thing is that since it’s open source someone can just fork the project and continue development in a different direction.
It would be easy enough to put a toggle in the settings for a ‘classic’ mode. I can see him doing that.
Doesn’t look bad tbh. Though I don’t use VLC too often.
Yeah, I know, and the new streaming formats technically supporting ads … What can I say - the world is a fuck & we must manage (or not manage, I’m not your boss, Im barely my boss).