What's wrong with VLC?

Waterluvian 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Making such a bold, unsubstantiated claim is a curious item in an otherwise detailed document. I went looking for other explanations and found this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/m1sxjo/it_is_better_mp...

I think it might be one of those classic “everyone should just get good like me” style opinions you find polluting some subject matter communities.

	▲	abanana 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, absolutely. The top answer on that Reddit link starts with: "MPV is the ultimate video player on planet earth, all the others are junk in comparison" and doesn't mention VLC at all. That's not a helpful answer, it's just signalling that they're a huge fan of MPV, with nothing to suggest they've ever even tried anything else.

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wafflemaker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the olden times of not working/playing movies (00's) and being a clueless tech support for ppl even more clueless about them computers,

The vlc was how you could get any movie to work (instead of messing with all these codecs, which apparently, in lieu to another comment in this thread, aren't really codecs).

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dylan604 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

my biggest pet peeve was that VLC was always considered a streamer and treated local files as streams as well. for the longest time, stepping within the video was not possible. reverse play was also a bane as well, even with i-frame only content. i have long found players that are better for me, but still find myself using VLC frequently because it still has features these other players do not.