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?

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it Jean-Baptiste Kempf

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    3 months ago

    VLC for the everyday person, all the way until you get to enthusiast class, then you use MPV.

    Shortcuts, lightweight, CLI etc…

    • Colonel Panic@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’ve been waiting for a Dark Mode for VLC for over a decade. It’s absurd. Yes I know some skins sorta do that, but they all suck because they change everything around and remove buttons and options instead of just making the default UI darker.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
    16·
    3 months ago

    VLC has pretty mediocre rendering, it stutters a lot even on a fast PC, or renders with grey artifacts. MPV is open source, renders much clearer and faster and can be used as the backend for any simple or advanced GUI video player.

    That said, VLC was great back in the early 2000’s, when it and it alone could open basically any media file and file containing media including mkv. Nowadays every video player does that.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 months ago

    VLC is the best media player, but the Linux kernel is the “supreme of all open source projects”.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Linux contains (edit) proprietary (/e) binary blobs. Not sure if that disqualifies it for being supreme of “open source projects” but if the question was about “free software projects” I am certain it would.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    I didn’t expect to click on a VLC appreciation thread agreeing that it’s awesome only to end up maybe switching to MPV based on the comments, but such is life I guess.

    I will remember it just like I will remember winamp, as one of the greats of its time.

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    161·
    3 months ago

    As a friend of mine said some years ago “VLC will play a slice of cucumber” that pretty much sums it up.

  • LaggyKar@programming.dev
    15·
    3 months ago

    I used to use it, but then I switched to MPV, as it works a lot better with hardware acceleration. MPV supports more methods for hardware decoding (e.g. nvdec), and also MPV will keep the frames in VRAM when doing hardware decoding, and do additional processing and presentation using the GPU, while VLC copies everything back to system RAM and processes the frame on the CPU.

    At the time I switched hardware decoding with copy-back would actually result in twice the CPU usage compared to software decoding, but that was a long time ago. Also, I would get tearing in VLC and not in MPV.

  • CCF_100@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    My only complaint about VLC is that it consistently drops the first few seconds of audio anytime I start playing a new file…

  • Miss Brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    3 months ago

    I had one big problem with VLC, in that it could not figure out which of my monitors I wanted the video to run fullscreen on. That was infuriating to the point I switched to MPV, and I’m very happy with it

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    I sometimes got performance issues or corrupted frames, so I mostly use mpv. It sometimes fails for some files so I need to switch to VLC to handle them.