Comment by Etheryte
3 hours ago
Exactly, very hard to take the rest of it seriously after the VLC bit. VLC has literally never left me hanging, across I don't know how many decades. It's gonna take more than a trust me bro to challenge that.
3 hours ago
Exactly, very hard to take the rest of it seriously after the VLC bit. VLC has literally never left me hanging, across I don't know how many decades. It's gonna take more than a trust me bro to challenge that.
You're talking about VLC for video playback, TFA is taking about video editing.
VLC ignores a lot for it's outstanding video playback support, which is great if you want the playback too just work... But that's the player perspective, not the editing/encoding
VLC has always caused problems for me when seeking backwards (graphical glitches). mpv has never caused any issues in this regard.
VLC is great for playing stuff back, but can produce some horribly incorrect video files especially if you're dealing with stuff for editing.
There's a reason why VLC isn't used in broadcast stuff and ffmpeg is.
IIRC VLC used the wrong primaries for converting to RGB for a long time (years) even after it being reported to them as wrong
>even after it being reported to them as wrong
Source?
I'm not the OP of the claim (and I love VLC) but maybe they're referring to this early 2018 issue: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/19723 which seems to be being actively worked on.
There's also https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25651 but that's an off by one error so likely not really relevant to video playback for the average user.
VLC has left me hanging many times. It's play a file wrong or not played at all while mpv plays it no problem. Do not use vlc.