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I've been on Linux since circa 2000. I was using mplayer2 to play most media. VLC was a big advance as it seemed to work better with videos with encoding issues
by easytiger 6y ago
I've been on Linux since circa 2000. I was using mplayer2 to play most media. VLC was a big advance as it seemed to work better with videos with encoding issues in terms of recovering the stream and whatnot.
- astrange 6y agoPretty much all players are just libavcodec, so the only differences are coincidences or default options, not original research in the player app. This goes double for encoding apps.
- easytiger 6y agoMaybe it just had better exception handling then.
- dopeboy 6y agoI remember the days of trying mplayer2, totem, and countless others. Everything just worked with VLC.