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I have a ton of goodwill and appreciation for the VLC team. That said, my experience with the VLC app has never been very positive. It seems to be universally

I have a ton of goodwill and appreciation for the VLC team. That said, my experience with the VLC app has never been very positive. It seems to be universally loved by everybody, yet every time I've used it in the past 10 years I've some issues with it, including but not limited to: - Stuttering 720p video on Windows 10, 10 core CPU, GTX 1080 - Opening network streams is a bit of a hit and miss - I could never make sense of the default "playlist" view when you start the app - Settings menu is a nightmare of options and UI layout I've always used SMPlayer on Windows and Linux and IINA/mpv on macOS instead and always had a better experience. Am I the only one that really doesn't grok VLC at all?

michaelmrose 7y ago
Mpv previously did a lot better job using video acceleration particularly nvidia at least on Linux. I believe this has been improved a while back but I now use Mpv for all my laptop/desktop needs. Network steams provided as in a url for a video often is no such thing. You might notice that Mpv uses YouTube-dl which has a variety of recipes that are updated to actually figure out how to get at a video. That this works a lot is pretty good work. The web is a mess and developer are presumably disincentivized to ensure that people can watch contents outside the officially sanctioned ad ladden experience.