Man, I love VLC but I just have so much trouble with it on Endeavour (Arch). I don’t use it often enough to troubleshoot it and instead just use either Haruna or MPV.
VLC doesn’t care. I dropped a 3d model on it by accident and it started 3d printing it. I don’t even have a 3d printer
VLC’s gonna be up there with
ffmpegandyt-dlpI actually know that the creators of vlc and ffmpeg do hang out on occasion.
MPV is also high-quality software, tends to handle streams much better than VLC for me. It’s amazing the amount of FOSS software that has been painstakingly maintained for years, that we mostly take for granted.
mpv use ffmpeg as backend
How they view iPhone users who can’t play a fucking .webm in 2025
Apple devices and browsers have been playing .web* files for a while now. Still not a good format. They don’t offer anything over existing and more widely adopted formats beyond crushing a file to death to save a little space (something that can easily be done to existing formats anyways).
Why can’t iPhone users watch my webm videos I send through Signal?
One of the achievements of humanity, along with Wikipedia, etc.
A monument how individuals can resist enshitification without prioritising financial gain over other humans.I’ve been using VLC for well over a decade now, but for some reason, VLC likes to shift the pitch down a little and up again every now and then and I don’t know why. Makes listening to music a little annoying.
I’ve never experienced that. Is it always the same file(s) at the same time(s)?
Nah, it’s random. Fixed in newest version though. Might be the nightly? Not sure.
I was team mpc until about 2006, now I’m team mpv.
I still can’t remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.
Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin’ around all these years.
Did you know that the VLC icon wears a Santa hat around Christmastime? Maybe that will change your mind.
I did! I see it on my students’ screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.
Yeah I switch to MPV maybe a decade ago from VLC. I just like the outward simplicity. It can do everything but it doesn bother showing you unless you ask, whereas VLC is like an all you can eat buffet, kind of overwhelming for day to day use.
I still use VLC occasionally when I want to do something funky and don’t want to bother digging into how to do it with MPV for a one off.
Same. Love the simplicity.
I watch media mostly on my TV anyway, via Plex, so there’s no reason to have some full fledged media solution on my PC.
