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You are free to change anything you like about VLC yourself. I don’t mind that it’s interfacr is “broken” because it: - plays videos - is free

bhandziuk 8y ago
Imagine if everyone who had an issue with a program forked it and made their own version.
- rangibaby 8y ago
  I'm not exactly a leet hacker but have done that multiple times to scratch my own itches.
  - DonHopkins 8y ago
    So where is your pull request to fix the bug I described? Why wasn't it accepted?
DonHopkins 8y ago
I invested the time in submitting a detailed bug report as a litmus test to determine if it was worth spending more of my time installing the source code, learning how it works, and trying to fix the problem myself. Because I'm a user interface programmer who could actually do that work, I also have a lot of other pressing things to do with my time, and wouldn't want to waste it if there was no chance of the developers accepting my changes or even acknowledging that there was a problem. If they brush off my bug report, I thought, then they probably won't accept my changes. But that's exactly what they did, which proved to me it wasn't worth my time. The developers also ignored and argued against many other valid bug reports and complaints on the discussion board. Their attitude came through quite clearly and consistently, and my experience wasn't unusual. If you disagree that it's not worth the time, then by all means you should get started downloading the source code, reading it to understand how it works, submitting bug reports on any problems you find, getting up to speed so you're qualified to make changes in the proper way that the developers will accept, fix the bug I described, test it on all platforms, and submit a pull request.
amyjess 8y ago
...or I could just use mpv, which does what I want better than VLC ever has. Funny thing is, in the anime/tokusatsu fansubbing community, VLC has a really, really bad reputation because it does everything just a little bit wrong. Many of the more respectable fansubbing groups have big warnings in their FAQs saying "don't use VLC", typically in bold and all caps (the usual recommendation is to use CCCP on Windows and mpv on Linux and Mac). Their support for chapters in MKV containers has been hideously broken for a long time, and they have an NIH syndrome where they implement their own versions of things that are provided by open-source libraries that everyone else uses, which causes all kinds of slight incompatibilities.

bhandziuk 8y ago

Imagine if everyone who had an issue with a program forked it and made their own version.

rangibaby 8y ago
I'm not exactly a leet hacker but have done that multiple times to scratch my own itches.
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  So where is your pull request to fix the bug I described? Why wasn't it accepted?

DonHopkins 8y ago

I invested the time in submitting a detailed bug report as a litmus test to determine if it was worth spending more of my time installing the source code, learning how it works, and trying to fix the problem myself. Because I'm a user interface programmer who could actually do that work, I also have a lot of other pressing things to do with my time, and wouldn't want to waste it if there was no chance of the developers accepting my changes or even acknowledging that there was a problem. If they brush off my bug report, I thought, then they probably won't accept my changes. But that's exactly what they did, which proved to me it wasn't worth my time. The developers also ignored and argued against many other valid bug reports and complaints on the discussion board. Their attitude came through quite clearly and consistently, and my experience wasn't unusual. If you disagree that it's not worth the time, then by all means you should get started downloading the source code, reading it to understand how it works, submitting bug reports on any problems you find, getting up to speed so you're qualified to make changes in the proper way that the developers will accept, fix the bug I described, test it on all platforms, and submit a pull request.

amyjess 8y ago

...or I could just use mpv, which does what I want better than VLC ever has. Funny thing is, in the anime/tokusatsu fansubbing community, VLC has a really, really bad reputation because it does everything just a little bit wrong. Many of the more respectable fansubbing groups have big warnings in their FAQs saying "don't use VLC", typically in bold and all caps (the usual recommendation is to use CCCP on Windows and mpv on Linux and Mac). Their support for chapters in MKV containers has been hideously broken for a long time, and they have an NIH syndrome where they implement their own versions of things that are provided by open-source libraries that everyone else uses, which causes all kinds of slight incompatibilities.