Comment by jlarocco

5 hours ago

I've never had problems with VLC, and I've used it off and on for 20 years.

I don't doubt that there's some obscure, elite videophile hate towards it, but I'm hardly going to stop using it because a few random internet strangers hate on it.

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perching_aix  4 hours ago

Kinda the problem with anecdotes isn't it? :)

My own anecdotal experience with VLC was that while every update fixed something, they also broke something in return - and these updates were common. This got annoying enough at some point for me to hop ships, and so I switched to mpc-hc and never looked back.

I've since also tried (and keep trying) the to-me still newfangled mpv, but I'm not a fan of the GUI or the keybinds. I know it can be customized, but that's not something I'm interested in doing. I know there are alternative frontends as well, but I checked and they're not to my liking either. So I mostly just use it for when mpc-hc gives out, such as really badly broken media files, or anything HDR.

  • aiahs  1 hour ago

    Out of pure curiosity, what kind of things were you VLC using for, for it to break so often? I'm almost never doing anything with video, so I'm completely clueless in this field.

  • jlarocco  4 hours ago

    And you think everybody else should stop using it because you had problems?

    I'll make up my own mind on it.

    • perching_aix  4 hours ago

      Do you think everyone else should start or continue using it because you never had problems?

      Let's be kind. Clearly not what either of us were thinking or intended to convey.

    • knowitnone3  3 hours ago

      You should make up your own mind. why bother reading comments at all? why bother reading reviews? I bet you watch every movie and never comment on how good or bad they are because you'll be telling everybody else what to do and that would be hypocritical. I wonder how you stumbled upon VLC in the first place - perhaps you read about it somewhere and followed that advice?