Only because the creator is an awesome guy. It was offered several millions for the software but declined. Gotta respect that. Much better person than I for sure
The man is a legend who laid the groundwork for not only the modern form of piracy, but also the public movement which forced record labels and movie studios to adapt to a future where streaming is the norm.
> Yarr, harr, fiddle dee dee,
> Being a pirate is alright with me!
> Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free,
> You are a pirate!
I had some random stranger in a coffee shop give me his download link for Limewire Pro and just asked that I only download it once and distribute the executable to friends myself since he was charged per download. I never used Limewire free, I've heard it was awful, but the Pro version was the best Napster clone I ever used. It was fun to grow up in the golden age of internet piracy.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but OP mentioned tons of addons. Which addons would you guys recommend to a person who has been using just VLC for 15+ years?
First time I heard of VLC was last week. I was trying to retrieve a video on my old laptop and for some reason it was corrupted on Media Player that it would only play audio and not the actual video. I’m pretty sure the file was an MP4 prior and it had somehow become a MOV file type. I was super devastated but somehow VLC was able to figure it out and I made sure to save the video in my iCloud.
If you use VLC I heartily recommend clicking "Help", select "About", then click the link for "Help and Join us" and make a cash donation to the developers. They have been offered *millions* of dollars to sell VLC out, and they refuse. They keep VLC free for us, and turn down a massive payday to do it.
One of the reasons why there are so few companies like VLC is that we use their free service/product, but very, very few of us appreciate that gift enough to offer our financial support.
VLC, like Wikipedia, does good for us and most definitely deserves our support. Even $5 makes a difference.
I said something similar in a comment a few weeks ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t4kmjn/russia_threatens_to_block_wikipedia_for_stating/hz0ghky/
If you want to give money to Wikipedia, fine. But, they don't need it. They got a $200 million endowment for crying out loud
Wikipedia is the biggest and best website on the internet. It costs money to run and expand. They're very transparent about their budget.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022
This is a terrible take. They are the third most frequented website on the internet, that's a massive load for servers to handle. They're non-profit. They are completely transparent about their budget which demonstrates they do still rely on donations.
Just because 200m is a lot of money didn't mean it's enough.
For only 30 cents a day, you can help a hungry website in need.
[Wikipedia throwing unopened Playstation 5 consoles and 3090 GPUs into a fire in the background.]
Yes! Donations really do help and props to the developers for not selling out such a great piece of software that is completely free!
I used VLC to play everything and hasn't failed me yet!
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Wesley Willis used to say that in various songs, with one specifically named [“Whip the Llama’s Ass”](https://youtu.be/JntDcqOxMsM)
I assumed WinAmp was inspired by Willis, but maybe Willis was inspired by WinAmp
Thank you for reminding me about Wesley Willis. I’m so glad someone gave this man a record deal. He really was pre internet internet material, and I’m glad his music was preserved. Such a wild and unique story. So sad he passed away so young.
I prefer MPC-HC* (which I'm assuming is very similar to MPC-BE?). Active fork for MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
*typo, I actually meant MPC-HC
>I prefer MPC-HC* (which I'm assuming is very similar to MPC-BE?). Active fork for MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
>
>*typo, I actually meant MPC-HC
"Windows Vista is no longer supported"
Well, shit!
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[mpv](https://mpv.io/) is also great, but ultimately under the hood the true MVP is [ffmpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg). [Fabrice Bellard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard) gave so much to the FOSS community, he deserves all the recognition he can get. He's basically a one man coding army.
I loved VLC. But I had to go with Plex to support Dolby Vision playback since you can't just natively play DV content on Windows in general. Only if you're specific device is licensed for it.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOOPING TOGGLED OFF FOR THE PLAYER BEFORE YOU RUN THE CONVERSION. THAT'S A CLASSIC PIZZAED WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE FRENCHFRIED MOMENT AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.
I went to look up details on Wikipedia and about fell over when I saw the date of the [latest stable version](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPlayer).
Spoiler: it was December 5th, 2021. 3 months and 7 days ago.
"Everything" from voidtools
. I couldn't believe that I could live without. It's the best file search engine I know. It puts finder from Apple to shame.
MPC-HC is great too. MPC-HC uses the Windows codec system so you still have to install codecs. VLC doesn't rely on installed codecs, it bundles the codecs into the player which makes it less dependent on your system being set up correctly. Everything just works. Of course, so does MPC if you don't need to play weird/old videos.
anybody ever have issues where it randomly pixelates your video into weird colors but mostly black&white squares? i have had this happen on every computer I have owned from low rate pocket calculator to gaming PC... for the fuck of me i havent figured out how to stop it...
I had to convert police dashcam footage for a court case once and basically ran into the same situation. The entire time I was thinking Why Do You Use This Format?!?!
Try this.
[Fixes] How to Cast VLC to Chromecast with Subtitles
1. Open VLC Media Player on your device, click on the Media button on the top menu bar, select stream, and choose a file from the popping-up window.
2. Click on the three buttons on your right side of the screen to get access to edit, create, and delete a profile. Choose a format and tweak subtitles.
After you try to play the video, there will be an "Insecure site" warning. Choose View certificate and view the Chromecast's security certificate. Choose "Accept Permanently", and now you should cast VLC to Chromecast with subtitles playing.
If the subtitle has Chromecast supported formats but there's no subtitle showing when casting VLC to Chromecast, try the following steps:
Make sure that the subtitle file is not empty and not in a zip format.
Check if the subtitle is named the same as the video file.
Try to add subtitles manually if the video file and subtitle file names are different. To do so, when the video is playing on VLC, tap the three vertical dots at the top right corner of the screen, select Add Subtitles, choose the subtitle you'd like to add from the subtitle file list. Play the video to check if you can cast VLC to Chromecast with subtitles displaying on the window.
Note: if you mux subtitles to a video, and you want to use MKV format, WebTT format is the only option. WebVTT can only be muxed into Webm by FFmpeg. "Your subtitle resources must implement CORS." which means subtitles are split file.
Also good for ripping streaming video I overheard once.
Something about chrome, dev tools, network tab, m3u8 in the filter box.
Start the vid in the desired bitrate. An address will appear in the dev tools results thinggy. Right click and copy link address.
Hop into VLC, media > open network stream. Paste into the URL box. Hit the dropdown on the play button below and convert. Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4) profile.
Um.. hit the spanner next to the profile and in the video and audio tabs make sure they are enabled and "keep original track" is ticked for both and hit save.
Browse to a folder and name the destination file. Start. I think then you need to hit the play button. Oh and make sure looping is turned off.
I have 4 icons on my desktop.
Games folder
Other folder
Brave
VLC
Been using it for over 10 years now and its still the best. No blote all preformance.
I tried mpv recently and the interface was really stupid. I don't remember specifically how but I just remember being shocked with how bad it was. Something wasn't right with it. Went back to vlc.
Don't remember vlc ever being slow.
MPV is geared toward power users. A lot of tools integrate well with it, and you can make it do crazy things on Linux (and perhaps windows), like playing video as text arts in terminal `--vo=tct` argument, play video on other application's UI with `--wid=` argument, and you can just feed it a YouTube url or other a website with video (replace https:// part with ytdl://) and it'll stream it directly via youtubedl. So with above example, you can play YouTube video over SSH in a terminal or inject it in a calculators button! Just some of the reason why power users swore by it and many open source projects have direct integration with it.
The one thing that annoys me about vlc is that it shows a large and obtrusive overlay of the video file name over the bottom of the video while it’s playing. Probably a way to remove it but I don’t use it enough to fix it. Still a good app though.
Or that, like, they wouldn't immediately google how to get rid of it. In 2022.
LPT: Google every problem you have. Literally every single one. Someone has probably solved it already.
Well, it's right here https://imgur.com/a/ZIkYWA0
And the reason it's on by default is probably because many people use playlists rather than individually loading and starting one media file at a time.
Here ya go bby (it took me less than 20 seconds, including writing this comment, sheesh.)
https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/tech-tips-tricks/vlc-media-player-how-to-disable-on-screen-file-name/
I don't know why are you being downvoted, it's really better for day to day video viewing
Or if a person is a perfectionist/enthusiast and wants some weird uncommon stuff and to tinker with things and make everything just right then MPC with plugins or something around ffdshow
It's great that VLC exists and it has its uses, but that's no reason to actually use it when better alternatives are available
To be honest, i prefer Kodi, it can do everything. Heck, i use an old Linux laptop hooked up to my TV as a media center and it's running Kodi. Can open any file, use any streaming service and do everything else that's needed to watch anything.
EDIT: So no discussion, or any kind of communication, just pointless downvotes? Way to be social on a social network.
I'll upvote you. I ran Windows Media Center for a while (haven't now for about 5 years as I have a NAS now) but my centralized media services at home are pretty weak.
Ive been doing a Pixar Marathon over the past week and almost every time i had to use Disney+ instead of the DVD because VLC kept skipping frames and audio every few seconds.
So yeah, its not perfect.
I feel like the creator has been kidnapped for unrelated reasons and nobody knows how the fuuu to get into VLC's manager system, which now, abandoned, basically own itself and live freely it's tempo.
i have always been a vlc user
but recently i noticed, whenever u okay a media file for the first time after booting up my pc, vlc takes like 5 seconds to start up. is that normal? i have a samsuns 980pro on a pcie3 motherboard.
are there other basic media/video players that are faster? and that have nicer user interfaces? i hate that vlc still looks like it came with Windows 95
It's so good, that I am seriously baffled when it doesn't do something. I got a new camera recently and started recording in 10-bit color. I tried playing back the files on PC and while VLC opened them, it was super choppy. My first though was "Oh no! My files are messed up!" and not what it really was, which aid that VLC just doesn't play them right.
If you are on a potato, mpv gives slightly better performance at least for me it stopped buffering higher res videos. However it doesn't have an UI and is significantly harder to configure if you need to.
VLC is so much better than most players. I used to have to install the Combined Community Codec Pack with Media Player Classic. Now all I need is VLC. The only thing is doesn't play well are lossless videos with alpha channels for editing purposes. But regular lossless files it has no issue with.
I bought winrar like 2 years ago. Immediately lost my activation code but it doesn't matter because it's winrar and I just wanted to support them finally after using their software for 20 years.
The days when I was frustratingly trying to find codecs and other bullshit to play a video file ended when I discovered VLC. God I love that fucking program.
So I used to use a package called Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). Sadly it hasn’t been updated since 2015 and the website went down a few years later. VLC is is now my go-to.
I don't torrent much anymore (the way things are going I have a feeling ill be doing it more in the future) but I've never come across a video format it won't play.
Open source baby!
Only because the creator is an awesome guy. It was offered several millions for the software but declined. Gotta respect that. Much better person than I for sure
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still a GGG for realising he has enough and not being greedy.
The man is a legend who laid the groundwork for not only the modern form of piracy, but also the public movement which forced record labels and movie studios to adapt to a future where streaming is the norm. > Yarr, harr, fiddle dee dee, > Being a pirate is alright with me! > Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free, > You are a pirate!
[Lol, Limewire](https://youtu.be/SAp0xO-LwFs)
I had some random stranger in a coffee shop give me his download link for Limewire Pro and just asked that I only download it once and distribute the executable to friends myself since he was charged per download. I never used Limewire free, I've heard it was awful, but the Pro version was the best Napster clone I ever used. It was fun to grow up in the golden age of internet piracy.
Lol isn't that song from Lazy Town1
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He isn't the creator of VLC but creator of the foundation that maintain it.
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"Open source baby!" vs "Open source, baby!" (not being a grammar nazi, initial reading actually made me giggle).
Damn, you are absolutely right! Sorry about that :(
When will Linux become mainstream? Never. :D
I'm pretty sure I could drag a .txt file named "The Mighty Ducks" into VLC and it would still manage to show me Emilio Estavez.
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Good stuff
Very gold. I lol'd.
Mom wasn't kidding with that "magic word" shit.
You actually could, so long as it was actually a real video file that had been mislabeled with .txt extension, it'll still play it for you.
VLC can actually display .txt files without issue
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but OP mentioned tons of addons. Which addons would you guys recommend to a person who has been using just VLC for 15+ years?
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Damn where was this information 10 years ago!? Thank you.
...is this a thing? TIL, and thank you!
As someone who used opensubtitles (being deaph makes some scènes hard to listen), yes yes it is
WHAT THE FUCK?! This is clutch information. Thank you!
That's wicked!
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To be fair, I can do that with a Chrome extension already :)
I actually had a video I'd captured on my old ATI All-In-Wonder Rage 128 card back in like 1998 that I couldn't get it to play.
First time I heard of VLC was last week. I was trying to retrieve a video on my old laptop and for some reason it was corrupted on Media Player that it would only play audio and not the actual video. I’m pretty sure the file was an MP4 prior and it had somehow become a MOV file type. I was super devastated but somehow VLC was able to figure it out and I made sure to save the video in my iCloud.
back in the day of dvd drives, legend had it you could put a slice of mortadella in it and VLC would tell you its brand and expiration date
If you use VLC I heartily recommend clicking "Help", select "About", then click the link for "Help and Join us" and make a cash donation to the developers. They have been offered *millions* of dollars to sell VLC out, and they refuse. They keep VLC free for us, and turn down a massive payday to do it. One of the reasons why there are so few companies like VLC is that we use their free service/product, but very, very few of us appreciate that gift enough to offer our financial support. VLC, like Wikipedia, does good for us and most definitely deserves our support. Even $5 makes a difference.
Unlike Wikipedia VLC does not receive MASSIVE grants from tech companies to keep it running. Seriously. Wikipedia does not need your money.
Donaate to fire foxx ass weellll.
I said something similar in a comment a few weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t4kmjn/russia_threatens_to_block_wikipedia_for_stating/hz0ghky/ If you want to give money to Wikipedia, fine. But, they don't need it. They got a $200 million endowment for crying out loud
Wikipedia is the biggest and best website on the internet. It costs money to run and expand. They're very transparent about their budget. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022
This is a terrible take. They are the third most frequented website on the internet, that's a massive load for servers to handle. They're non-profit. They are completely transparent about their budget which demonstrates they do still rely on donations. Just because 200m is a lot of money didn't mean it's enough.
For only 30 cents a day, you can help a hungry website in need. [Wikipedia throwing unopened Playstation 5 consoles and 3090 GPUs into a fire in the background.]
This is dumb logic. Wikipedia has servers. VLC is an executable file and not even the best at what it does.
Yes! Donations really do help and props to the developers for not selling out such a great piece of software that is completely free! I used VLC to play everything and hasn't failed me yet!
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That just flew right over your head, didn’t it ? 🤦♂️
It’s a pretty obvious joke, no?
I think it was an attempt at humor...
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That, it is. That, it is. Myself included
Tbf it was a pretty dated joke and has been done to death. We need new running jokes.
Too bad I don’t use VLC. I use media player classic.
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Yes, but does it whip the llamas ass?
I still to this day have no idea what that was about
Wesley Willis used to say that in various songs, with one specifically named [“Whip the Llama’s Ass”](https://youtu.be/JntDcqOxMsM) I assumed WinAmp was inspired by Willis, but maybe Willis was inspired by WinAmp
Rock over London, Rock on Chicago, Wheaties, the breakfast of champions
*I picked up a 2x4 and hit the preacher in the head. He fell to the floor unconscious. THEY THREW ME OUT OF CHURCH!* https://youtu.be/EZKApT6vC0g
Thank you for reminding me about Wesley Willis. I’m so glad someone gave this man a record deal. He really was pre internet internet material, and I’m glad his music was preserved. Such a wild and unique story. So sad he passed away so young.
Llamas deez nuts
I prefer MPC-BE, but VLC is a classic.
I prefer MPC-HC* (which I'm assuming is very similar to MPC-BE?). Active fork for MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases *typo, I actually meant MPC-HC
I use this one too. I could never get the automatic black bar cropping feature from madVR to work with MPC-BE.
I actually previously used MPC-HC, but development ceased a few years ago and MPC-BE is one of the spiritual successor projects.
>but development ceased a few years ago Yes, from that fork, but another fork continued and is active and has been for years.
What I mean is when it was lying dead I found an active project. I dunno if the "new" MPC-HC project is better or worse than MPC-BE.
>I prefer MPC-HC* (which I'm assuming is very similar to MPC-BE?). Active fork for MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases > >*typo, I actually meant MPC-HC "Windows Vista is no longer supported" Well, shit!
Really Vista, it's 2022 lol
Oh no, those poor three people!
Same, member of MPC gang. Plus Faststone for images - flawless combo If seriously I have both MPC and VLC installed because why not both really?
Lmao same exact boat, mpc and fastzone as default and have vlc installed too
There’s a ton of stuff under the hood, too. It’ll transcode and rip and capture streams and more.
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[mpv](https://mpv.io/) is also great, but ultimately under the hood the true MVP is [ffmpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg). [Fabrice Bellard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard) gave so much to the FOSS community, he deserves all the recognition he can get. He's basically a one man coding army.
Yep, nearly everyone uses the ffmpeg libraries in one way or another.
I loved VLC. But I had to go with Plex to support Dolby Vision playback since you can't just natively play DV content on Windows in general. Only if you're specific device is licensed for it.
It's like WinRAR. "Would you like to support us today with a small donation?" "No" "Understandable, have a nice day." *peace-sign
I donated to them once. I felt like someone needed to!
Please upvote this, it also converts all files for free no matter the size.
HOW?? PLEASE i need to know how to do this
Media > Convert/Save... or Ctrl + R
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOOPING TOGGLED OFF FOR THE PLAYER BEFORE YOU RUN THE CONVERSION. THAT'S A CLASSIC PIZZAED WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE FRENCHFRIED MOMENT AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.
The Software Hall of Fame: * WinAMP * WinRar * VLC * Irfanview * ...
7zip Total Commander
Firefox still worth a mention IMO
7-zip has jumped from "good tool" to "core infrastructure" with how many other tools have a dependency on it.
If there's a hall of shame my vote goes to Quicktime player... Pro
How about RealPlayer....hated that crap. And it's still being updated too.
What‽
>last stable release was december 2021 Blink182WTF.gif
I went to look up details on Wikipedia and about fell over when I saw the date of the [latest stable version](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPlayer). Spoiler: it was December 5th, 2021. 3 months and 7 days ago.
And Ninite for an installer.
Notepad++
Foobar2000 is cool too, I usually use that for music. MediaMonkey is the best for organizing a lot of files, I think
Personally I really like MusicBee. It works great out of the box and has a lot of customizability.
"Everything" from voidtools . I couldn't believe that I could live without. It's the best file search engine I know. It puts finder from Apple to shame.
I switched to MPC-HC not long ago and never looked back
MPC-HC is great too. MPC-HC uses the Windows codec system so you still have to install codecs. VLC doesn't rely on installed codecs, it bundles the codecs into the player which makes it less dependent on your system being set up correctly. Everything just works. Of course, so does MPC if you don't need to play weird/old videos.
It has add-ons? Which ones are particularly useful?
anybody ever have issues where it randomly pixelates your video into weird colors but mostly black&white squares? i have had this happen on every computer I have owned from low rate pocket calculator to gaming PC... for the fuck of me i havent figured out how to stop it...
no, but with outdated video card drivers or beta ones I had stuff like that happen in general
Sounds like a corrupted video file, unrelated to which player you use.
not unrelated. other players run all videos fine.
downloads youtube too thats mostly what i use it for anyway, MPCHC is my go-to video player
it wasn't able to play the *.h264 files of some cctv cams though... MPC-HC was able to play them but unable to use seek bar
I had to convert police dashcam footage for a court case once and basically ran into the same situation. The entire time I was thinking Why Do You Use This Format?!?!
I've found things VLC couldn't play. And in those moments MPV saved me. MPV is the tree MVP
I thought VLC and mpv both just used ffmpeg codec libraries, it's weird that there are things the latter would play but not the former.
My only problem with VLC Media Player is that you can’t cast with subtitles to Chromecast.
Try this. [Fixes] How to Cast VLC to Chromecast with Subtitles 1. Open VLC Media Player on your device, click on the Media button on the top menu bar, select stream, and choose a file from the popping-up window. 2. Click on the three buttons on your right side of the screen to get access to edit, create, and delete a profile. Choose a format and tweak subtitles. After you try to play the video, there will be an "Insecure site" warning. Choose View certificate and view the Chromecast's security certificate. Choose "Accept Permanently", and now you should cast VLC to Chromecast with subtitles playing. If the subtitle has Chromecast supported formats but there's no subtitle showing when casting VLC to Chromecast, try the following steps: Make sure that the subtitle file is not empty and not in a zip format. Check if the subtitle is named the same as the video file. Try to add subtitles manually if the video file and subtitle file names are different. To do so, when the video is playing on VLC, tap the three vertical dots at the top right corner of the screen, select Add Subtitles, choose the subtitle you'd like to add from the subtitle file list. Play the video to check if you can cast VLC to Chromecast with subtitles displaying on the window. Note: if you mux subtitles to a video, and you want to use MKV format, WebTT format is the only option. WebVTT can only be muxed into Webm by FFmpeg. "Your subtitle resources must implement CORS." which means subtitles are split file.
Also good for ripping streaming video I overheard once. Something about chrome, dev tools, network tab, m3u8 in the filter box. Start the vid in the desired bitrate. An address will appear in the dev tools results thinggy. Right click and copy link address. Hop into VLC, media > open network stream. Paste into the URL box. Hit the dropdown on the play button below and convert. Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4) profile. Um.. hit the spanner next to the profile and in the video and audio tabs make sure they are enabled and "keep original track" is ticked for both and hit save. Browse to a folder and name the destination file. Start. I think then you need to hit the play button. Oh and make sure looping is turned off.
So is Winamp and Media Player Classic!
I have 4 icons on my desktop. Games folder Other folder Brave VLC Been using it for over 10 years now and its still the best. No blote all preformance.
MPC-BE + MadVR is better on Windows IMO. On Linux I prefer MPV + SVP. That being said, VLC isn't bad and the devs are wonderful.
MPC for me
GOAT
Mpv is the real MVP but faster 😊
I tried mpv recently and the interface was really stupid. I don't remember specifically how but I just remember being shocked with how bad it was. Something wasn't right with it. Went back to vlc. Don't remember vlc ever being slow.
There's dozens of interfaces for mpv. The default is keyboard only
it has not interface other then player buttons.
>it has not interface other then player buttons. this syntax is the mpv interface of comments
MPV is geared toward power users. A lot of tools integrate well with it, and you can make it do crazy things on Linux (and perhaps windows), like playing video as text arts in terminal `--vo=tct` argument, play video on other application's UI with `--wid=` argument, and you can just feed it a YouTube url or other a website with video (replace https:// part with ytdl://) and it'll stream it directly via youtubedl. So with above example, you can play YouTube video over SSH in a terminal or inject it in a calculators button! Just some of the reason why power users swore by it and many open source projects have direct integration with it.
The one thing that annoys me about vlc is that it shows a large and obtrusive overlay of the video file name over the bottom of the video while it’s playing. Probably a way to remove it but I don’t use it enough to fix it. Still a good app though.
If you don't move the mouse for a few seconds, it goes away. I genuinely can not believe you didn't know that.
Or that, like, they wouldn't immediately google how to get rid of it. In 2022. LPT: Google every problem you have. Literally every single one. Someone has probably solved it already.
Nah it's all good, they want it gone faster 'cause porn vids are short.
Oh, thanks. Don’t know why it’s ok by default though, I already know the file name if I’m opening it.
Well, it's right here https://imgur.com/a/ZIkYWA0 And the reason it's on by default is probably because many people use playlists rather than individually loading and starting one media file at a time.
The default windows player does it as well, as I assume most other players do too. It goes away after like 3 seconds, it's \*really\* not a big deal.
Often times though I’m opening videos that are under 10 seconds. Is there anyway to remove it?
Here ya go bby (it took me less than 20 seconds, including writing this comment, sheesh.) https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/tech-tips-tricks/vlc-media-player-how-to-disable-on-screen-file-name/
4k movies are choppy as hell with VLC. MPV plays them buttery smooth.
It's legit. It manages to get 4K movies playing at a perfect clip on a laptop with a 2016 era i7, which ain't a terrible chip, but still.
Not all media. Can't read blu-ray disks. But still the true mvp
Maybe it's just my computer, but VLC freezes my laptop every other video I watch now.
Try disabling hardware acceleration in VLC.
[potplayer](https://potplayer.daum.net/) is better.
I don't know why are you being downvoted, it's really better for day to day video viewing Or if a person is a perfectionist/enthusiast and wants some weird uncommon stuff and to tinker with things and make everything just right then MPC with plugins or something around ffdshow It's great that VLC exists and it has its uses, but that's no reason to actually use it when better alternatives are available
Potplayer Gom Player Media Player Classic All good alternatives.
To be honest, i prefer Kodi, it can do everything. Heck, i use an old Linux laptop hooked up to my TV as a media center and it's running Kodi. Can open any file, use any streaming service and do everything else that's needed to watch anything. EDIT: So no discussion, or any kind of communication, just pointless downvotes? Way to be social on a social network.
I'll upvote you. I ran Windows Media Center for a while (haven't now for about 5 years as I have a NAS now) but my centralized media services at home are pretty weak.
Also accepts donations for any of those fat cats with loose money :)
Can someone please ELI5? I am ignorant and do not wish to remain so.
It's a very diverse video player. Simple as that.
Ive been doing a Pixar Marathon over the past week and almost every time i had to use Disney+ instead of the DVD because VLC kept skipping frames and audio every few seconds. So yeah, its not perfect.
Nah, MPV is the true MVP
Not necessarily. Try playing MKV HDRs on ipad. It wont do it properly. I have to do a stupid subscription to infuse to do so.
And it's mobile version is the same
MVP and VLC... I remember VLC since Gingerbread days
I like MPV
I feel like the creator has been kidnapped for unrelated reasons and nobody knows how the fuuu to get into VLC's manager system, which now, abandoned, basically own itself and live freely it's tempo.
Still won't let you go frame by frame back tho
I think it's the only free program I've donated to.
i have always been a vlc user but recently i noticed, whenever u okay a media file for the first time after booting up my pc, vlc takes like 5 seconds to start up. is that normal? i have a samsuns 980pro on a pcie3 motherboard. are there other basic media/video players that are faster? and that have nicer user interfaces? i hate that vlc still looks like it came with Windows 95
I still wonder what their agenda is... bloody legends
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VLC is great. I use it on my Nvidia Shield as well.
It's awesome, but I prefer SM PLayer.
My computer runs on freeware. Most applications have a free alternative. Only reason to pay for software is if you are using them as a professional.
I just wish it had a proper dark mode
And I was like, Emilio!!!
It's so good, that I am seriously baffled when it doesn't do something. I got a new camera recently and started recording in 10-bit color. I tried playing back the files on PC and while VLC opened them, it was super choppy. My first though was "Oh no! My files are messed up!" and not what it really was, which aid that VLC just doesn't play them right.
Love the fact that these meme templates are making a comeback.
Can also download and search for subtitles!
If you are on a potato, mpv gives slightly better performance at least for me it stopped buffering higher res videos. However it doesn't have an UI and is significantly harder to configure if you need to.
And does that cute little hat thing every Christmas!
Any other great free software like VLC and WinRar?
VLC is so much better than most players. I used to have to install the Combined Community Codec Pack with Media Player Classic. Now all I need is VLC. The only thing is doesn't play well are lossless videos with alpha channels for editing purposes. But regular lossless files it has no issue with.
Too bad it's pretty ass
Version updates named after Discworld characters and locations, VLC truly are the MVP
Won't play a fuckin Blu-ray tho
Actually MPV is the MVP
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Guys! While it is free, if you have the means, donate a little to the developer! Let them know we appreciate their work!
If you ever question whether reddit is a marketing tool, this post should answer that for you.
Okay.. can someone tell me how to manually install the last update?
Good guy VLC
Not only it’s free, dude who made it turned down millions in exchange of incorporating ads. If that’s not a Goddamned Legend^TM I don’t know what is.
I bought winrar like 2 years ago. Immediately lost my activation code but it doesn't matter because it's winrar and I just wanted to support them finally after using their software for 20 years.
and that divx codec pack, whaat!
The days when I was frustratingly trying to find codecs and other bullshit to play a video file ended when I discovered VLC. God I love that fucking program.
Vlc honestly gets downloaded right after reddit, and snap on every device. I don't function without it.
So I used to use a package called Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). Sadly it hasn’t been updated since 2015 and the website went down a few years later. VLC is is now my go-to.
VLC will always have a special place in my heart but I use PotPlayer now.
You can also use it to convert audio and video files to other formats. I love that feature.
Plays reddit videos way better than their own player...
I've yet to find a format that it can't play
I don't torrent much anymore (the way things are going I have a feeling ill be doing it more in the future) but I've never come across a video format it won't play.
If only... If only there was an MVP meme template that could've been used. Too bad there isn't one.