Comment by dooglius

5 hours ago

What year was this? I don't know there has ever been a normal format it doesn't support, and I think this has been the case for at least 15 years.

Up until just last month I had never had a problem with VLC. But I don't pirate content so maybe I just hadn't encountered the problematic files. However, recording voice notes in Opus format on my phone, it turns out that VLC has a bug playing Opus files at certain bit rates. However for me this is easily worked around by just using MPV.

I dropped VLC circa 2019 for all the reasons mentioned and ever since I use exclusively MPV, both on Windows and Linux.

So at least from those times