> h.264 (and h.265) which made the breadth of codec support not as important anymore You say that but just yesterday i used VLC to play some old videos i had w

> h.264 (and h.265) which made the breadth of codec support not as important anymore You say that but just yesterday i used VLC to play some old videos i had which AFAICT were in RealVideo format or something like that. And i transcode everything i want to watch in my Android tablet (where i also use VLC) to mpeg2 because the tablet is ancient (10+ years old) and can't handle anything newer, so i am glad that VLC a) still works on the ancient Android OS it has and b) still supports an old outdated but CPU light video format :-P.