> MS Media Player eventually fell behind the curve, but eventually we got VLC and things got great.

And in-between those we had Media Player Classic together with the Combined Community Codec Pack, and once you had MPC + CCCP installed, you could finally view those glorious aXXo-branded 700MB files found on a random DC++ hub.

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JBiserkov 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm still using the Media Player Classic Home Cinema to this day. https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Never liked VLC, but that's just me.

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odo1242 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

VLC has fallen slightly victim to the “developer team tries to rebuild the entire product from scratch and still isn’t done with the rebuild but has stopped maintaining the original for like three years” issue that some software seems to have

	▲	xeonmc 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, the Overwatch 2 development approach.

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xnx 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's insane that clicking on the video in the VLC interface does nothing. In every other app it is play/pause. There's a way to enable it deep in settings (or as a plugin?) but it should be the default.

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embedding-shape 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I did drop MPC in favor of VLC, but with the new UI of VLC, maybe it's time to give MPC a try again. Didn't realize there was forks of it, time to do some rabbit hole diving!