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Why does a video viewer need a "playlist"? Isn't that feature already accomplished by the file open dialog?
by enriquto 7y ago
Why does a video viewer need a "playlist"? Isn't that feature already accomplished by the file open dialog?
- moreira 7y agoYou see it as a video viewer but plenty of people use it as a general media (including music) player. If you’ve got 100 songs queued up, then keeping track of a playlist is definitely necessary.
- skrebbel 7y agoI agree that it's an overrated feature, but there's plenty of use cases. Eg you want to play an evening of cool videos in a loop on a projector somewhere, your kids are allow to watch exactly two Paw Patrol episodes, etc.
- tapland 7y agoClasses with 4-6 minute videos.
- neau 7y agoBinge watching TV shows is a habit not to be overlooked.
- Kaiyou 7y agoSame reason it needs an integrated email client.
- iovrthoughtthis 7y agoWhat about sequential playing without user interaction? What about persistent arbitrary play ordering? Any solution to this would just be implementing a playlist.
- enriquto 7y ago> What about sequential playing without user interaction? cvlc * > What about persistent arbitrary play ordering? cvlc `ls | sort -R`
- lifthrasiir 7y ago> cvlc `ls | sort -R` Results in a same sequence once the loop completes. You should use `cvlc -Z` instead; I also happen to use `mplayer -shuffle` for this exact purpose.
- enriquto 7y agowhy would you want to see a movie twice on the same binge?
- greatpatton 7y agobecause they are watching music videos...
- lifthrasiir 7y agoVLC is useful as an audio player as well.
- programd 7y ago> cvlc `ls | shuf` gives you a different sequence every time
- lifthrasiir 7y agoOkay, I have assumed "persistent" being a loop. The loop is being randomized but it is fixed once arguments are passed to cvlc.
- thecatspaw 7y agodropbox is just a remote folder which I can sync with rsync, right?
- genericacct 7y agoTBH I now mostly use desktop VLC for my mp3 library. The various remote interfaces are awesome for controlling playback from a smartphone. Therefore VLC is at least to me an audio player.
- AlexTDS 7y agoI use it to stream an IPTV playlist. With VLC 3 large playlist of channels would never load correctly or would take a lot of time. The recent nightlies have been much much better and content loads pretty much instantaneously.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoWhy does an HTML viewer need history and tabs? Aren't these features already accomplished by the xterm window the user must be invoking it from?
- enriquto 7y agoYou are right. Browsers are even worse in that respect!
- Endy 7y agoOn an inferior system, absolutely. On Windows, I run it either from an icon click or the Run dialog. No terminal invocation is needed.
- LeoPanthera 7y agoYou're being sarcastic, but there's a grain of truth in your argument against tabs. It does feel like the kind of thing the OS should provide for any app.