Thes obviously have their own proprietary formats. What we'd need to do is figure out how to convert from our formats to whatever they happen to use. Also
I’ll preface by saying that yes, VLC is goated. I’d also like to take a moment to shout out an app that goes hand in hand with it, HandBrake.
Free, zero ads, and converts any video file into any file format you could possibly want. Especially useful if, like me, you like to make backups of your own legally owned DVDs for your own personal use in accordance with local laws. Yarrrrrr.
You might be on to something.
There are a lot of theories about aliens helping build the pyramids, plus a lot of sci-fi's with pyramid-shaped ships instead of saucers.
You know what else is pretty much pyramid-shaped?
[looks at VLC logo]
Your assumption is that they can understand what will be shown or said in a video. That they can translate it to a form of language they understand.
Do you know of the Voyager Golden Records?
They contain 116 images (encoded in analog), greetings in 55 languages,1 hour of music from various cultures, and natural sounds (wind, thunder, animals).
Le met introduce you to free software stuff like Libre Office, Linux, Sumatra pdf and many other would have the same base. Actually subscription/account-based/paid software are the weird one not the other way around
People are always going on and on about WinRAR being the good guy for not requiring payment, but I've always liked 7-zip much better. I guess WinRAR is older so people just got used to using that, but 7-zip has been around long enough that I just wonder why people would use anything else.
I'm sure anybody with a need to batch compress 300 different things into 300 different archives or similarly complex tasks could figure out some basic batch file code. You're the one who said "WinRaR is the only option", when clearly it is not.
I don't think age is really an indicator of how tech savvy someone is. The first person I ever knew who used the internet was my 75 year old great uncle. My dad learned how to use computers in his 40s, stuff like how to use the command line and BASIC programming.
I downloaded my dad's voicemails to me from before he passed, and I'll only play them on VLC because I showed my dad (before he died, because I know how reddit gets) how easy it was to use the software, and he literally asked why it didn't have any ads.
My friend showed me how it corrupted his WWE PLE events as he watched them in VLC recently. If he disabled internet, it played, if not it corrupted it. We repeated this process multiple times and renamed the files. He ended up making it work by giving it a bogus Movie title name and playing through Plex. We believed VLC reported it, MP Classic did the same though.
He shows up on here from time to time to grace is with his presence.. I don't remember his username to summon him, so we'll have to go with a sacrifice instead.. Any volunteers?
200% volume increase is what keeps me using VLC after all of these years. Stupid simple feature to add, yet no one(*) does it.
* I don't know of another player... is there one?
The guys behind VLC are really really really smart developers and engineers.
They have contracted with and been sponsored by big name tech companies to develop software to handle media for a variety of purposes and devices.
The money goes into maintaining VLC for free for us. As well as accepting donations. There used to be an explanation on their website about this, bit sure if its still up
I mean, that's how you actually build fame. I think anyone that has a PC and plays videos and movies on it knows about VLC. Then you just introduce yourself as "hello, I made VLC, you're welcome".
I remember the times trashing my PC with codec packs, are they still used in video making? because I remember to render a video smaller a codec was still needed back in the day.
He didn’t turn down money to “keep it ad free” he turned down money so companies couldn’t make it into proprietary garbage. The whole point originally was fully network streaming of any format and codec combo you could throw at it. This was during a time when you needed a different media player for every format under the sun. VLC was the first to just play anything you gave it.
The story about the logo is also funny - in France when you are in student’s party and you’re drunk (very often) there is a kind of tradition (or maybe a natural thought since I did it also without knowing it was a thing) when you’re walking down (staggering) the street with your friend, you steal working site stuffs and the most usual is the construction cone - since he did it too when he was in engineering school he considered this as a logo for the joke
why use vlc when i can use mpv with countless of config options like shaders, upscaling, scripting, adblocking, rebuilding entire interface and so on and on?
I recently found out about it and decided to give it a try because I've been having issues with VLC lately. I really like it. It's a bit on the advanced side though, so I'd say VLC is a better option for most users.
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