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The creator of VLC just won the European SFS Award “in recognition of his outstanding and lasting contributions to the Free Software movement and his long-term dedication to the VLC project.”
sad ffmpeg noises
Dont you mean sad libavcodec noises?
VLC, IPlayer, and FFMpeg are interfaces for libavcodec 😀
I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled
VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge
There are other media players?
Somehow I’m unable to let VLC play any kind of video on my Arch (actually cachyos) laptop. Whatever the format it says codec is missing even if I installed everything (mpv, totem and others can play them).
(I tried to install vlc-git from aur but then gave up when after 30 minutes was still compiling, I don’t have enough patience to wait all that time every time I run
yay)I’m forced to run the flatpak version of VLC for some reason, the only way to make it work
Nah. mpv.
Until you want to add external subtitles
VLC sucks ass when you want to do any type of live transcoding or remuxing without setting up a video stream. Especially with multichannel audio:
This has been an issue ever since feature added, the maximum bitrate you can set is 512 kb/s on every codec, despite codecs that support more.
The bug thread for this was basically “stop complaining about our shit UI and use the CLI”
Much prefer Kodi for this purpose, and an ffmpeg based player for lightweight stuff.
My experience with VLC in Linux is subpar. In Windows it was always a good tool to have. Granted for me it was just, does this shit have working codecs, phew, it plays
Developed by the French and funded by the EU. I’ll download it.
Despite that I still like it
the only one that could play the videos i recorded on my BlackBerry 2008-2012
