>Yeah, it’s been said that ffmpeg and vlc could play a vinyl record if you fed it to them. ffmpeg is doing all the heavy lifting there. VLC mostly uses librari

>Yeah, it’s been said that ffmpeg and vlc could play a vinyl record if you fed it to them. ffmpeg is doing all the heavy lifting there. VLC mostly uses libraries from ffmpeg. I have no idea why people are so impressed by VLC. Anything built on libavcodec can play all the same files, but they won't have VLC's deficiencies in performance, quality, reliability, or usability. ffmpeg is a great project and VLC an incompetent one riding its coattails.