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As a VJ, that's what I love about VLC too. Even now, I cringe when I go to professional film screenings, and between each film the screen reverts to a Mac deskt
by odbol_ 11y ago
As a VJ, that's what I love about VLC too. Even now, I cringe when I go to professional film screenings, and between each film the screen reverts to a Mac desktop wallpaper and some person in the projection booth is frantically twiddling with their mouse to click the play button in QuickTime.
- SwellJoe 11y agoWe did a job where they insisted on us playing the show off of their Mac running, I think, iTunes. It was a whole bunch of shorts for a festival type event. These were video/photography pros. It was an utter shit show. Videos starting halfway through, videos being skipped without warning, etc. We spent a significant amount of time with the projector blanked, while setting up the next video or fixed fucked up start times. The level of stress caused by Apple's fuckery was enough to where we, as a company, instituted a rule that clients either provided video to us in advance of the show so we could put it into a VLC playlist, or they were explicitly responsible for all the shit that would follow (including running the computer that was being projected...and whatever ended up on the screen was their responsibility). QuickTime doesn't even have a damned playlist function which is why they were using iTunes. But, iTunes has some of the most bizarre behaviors I've ever dealt with, and awful playlist functionality, in general.