Comment by eviks
1 month ago
Literally don't stop at the first sentence!!!
> It turns out that reading the (f.) manual actually helps a lot!
The non-recommendation of VLC vs mpc/mpv is literally for playback as I quoted! MPC also doesn't do any encoding, yet it's recommended
> the following sentence mentions hardcoding subtitles.
And that sentence starts with "Apart from simply watching the video" to tell you the same thing the previous sentence told you - that comparison where VLC was not receommended was about playback, not editing
Yes, I think everyone, including the author of the article will agree that you've quoted the one sentence thats about playback. I agreed on that from the beginning as well. After all, after you've modified a video file, you will want to check if it looks as desired. You want a video player for that, ideally one that doesn't ignore things for improved compatibility.
The point was that the rest of the article wasn't and if you unironically can't tell that, then you should seriously train your reading comprehension.