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> There are about 500 modules in VLC, which means you can come and work on a very small part and improve it without breaking everything else. This is presented

> There are about 500 modules in VLC, which means you can come and work on a very small part and improve it without breaking everything else. This is presented as a positive. Here's the negative: poor maintenance. Virtually nobody knows, for example, how the official SMB plugin works, and there's no documentation. Speaking about "best developers" (a section of the article). Since version 3, video playback suffered from one or more bugs on any of the 4+ machines I've tried it on. I'm talking about video playback, which is a core feature; I had to switch to MPlayer. It seems to me that VLC is the software users love to love. I'm puzzled by the reasons of this; my guess is that products with a zillion of features have a certain charm.

jbk 7y ago
> Virtually nobody knows, for example, how the official SMB plugin works, and there's no documentation. Totally BS. We have 4 SMB modules, which ones are you talking about? (Windows, samba, libdsm (v1) and libsmb2). We spent a lot of time lately to fix that and improve it. Sure, with the move to SMBv2/3 we had some issues, but that is normal because it required a new architecture, and they are almost all fixed now. The documentation of those modules is at the same place as usual. > Since version 3, video playback suffered from one or more bugs on any of the 4+ machines I've tried it on. Since version 3, we activated hardware decoding by default, and that means it is very dependent on your linux distribution and your drivers. I think most of those issues are fixed now though.