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VLC used to be my favorite video player. Then I discovered Splash Pro Ex. Seriously, if your computer isn't very powerful, you can watch full HD movies without

by rorrr 14y ago

VLC used to be my favorite video player. Then I discovered Splash Pro Ex. Seriously, if your computer isn't very powerful, you can watch full HD movies without any stuttering, barely any CPU load, and has half of the load on the GPU compared to VLC. Instant skips to any part of a huge file (I just tested on an 18GB mkv, VLC takes like 30 sec to skip to the middle).

TobbenTM 14y ago
Link: http://mirillis.com/en/products/splashexport.html http://mirillis.com/en/products/splashexport.html Not free, Windows only.
- rorrr 14y ago
  Yeah, VLC is collecting money too, that's what this post is about. Regardless, even if VLC is free, I just like Splash better for basic playback. I realize VLC is extremely complex and full of all kinds of features, but I don't use 99% of them. I recently tried streaming using the VLC browser plugin, and it failed spectacularly, it doesn't buffer properly.
  - masklinn 14y ago
    > Yeah, VLC is collecting money too, that's what this post is about. VLC is collecting money to port to a platform with which the current codebase and toolchain are completely incompatible (see jbk's comment above), and that money is solely collected from people who want to support the port (or VLC itself), using VLC or hacking on it costs $0.
- brass9 14y ago
  A limited capacity lite version is there
mtgx 14y ago
I wish I could use VLC more, but I can't and I can't recommend it to friends either to use most of the time. What I recommend them is BSPlayer. The main reason is because BSPlayer is so much better with subtitles. It has 3 subtitle sources to look into, and it can automatically match and download them for your movie. For a foreigner that's extremely helpful and convenient. It basically can be a deal-breaker if other players don't have that. I think VLC has sort of a similar 3rd party add-on for that, but I'm not even sure if it's supported anymore, and I don't think it worked that well anyway. And I also found it pretty hard to set-up. It's not a one-click install. If VLC was as good at subtitles as BSPlayer, I'd use only that and recommend it to all my friends, too. Now you have me intrigued with Splash Pro, though. I'll have to give that a try, especially on older PC's.
- jbk 14y ago
  VLC next version will have this add-on integrated.
  - mtgx 14y ago
    Good to hear. I hope you can seek subtitles in more than just one source, though. It might help if you created your own database for subtitles and then promote it a little on your site. VLC is very popular, probably more popular than BSPlayer (I don't have any numbers), but if BSplayer can make their own subtitle database, you probably can, too. Also, I think VLC doesn't support localizations that well. Some letters in other languages look very weird, while the same subtitles work well in BSPlayer. Just something to look into.
    - jbk 14y ago
      The localization should be fixed, to be honest, since a few version.
Aardwolf 14y ago
The word "Pro" in its name tells enough.

by rorrr 14y ago

TobbenTM 14y ago

Link: http://mirillis.com/en/products/splashexport.html http://mirillis.com/en/products/splashexport.html Not free, Windows only.

rorrr 14y ago
Yeah, VLC is collecting money too, that's what this post is about. Regardless, even if VLC is free, I just like Splash better for basic playback. I realize VLC is extremely complex and full of all kinds of features, but I don't use 99% of them. I recently tried streaming using the VLC browser plugin, and it failed spectacularly, it doesn't buffer properly.
- masklinn 14y ago
  > Yeah, VLC is collecting money too, that's what this post is about. VLC is collecting money to port to a platform with which the current codebase and toolchain are completely incompatible (see jbk's comment above), and that money is solely collected from people who want to support the port (or VLC itself), using VLC or hacking on it costs $0.
brass9 14y ago
A limited capacity lite version is there

mtgx 14y ago

I wish I could use VLC more, but I can't and I can't recommend it to friends either to use most of the time. What I recommend them is BSPlayer. The main reason is because BSPlayer is so much better with subtitles. It has 3 subtitle sources to look into, and it can automatically match and download them for your movie. For a foreigner that's extremely helpful and convenient. It basically can be a deal-breaker if other players don't have that. I think VLC has sort of a similar 3rd party add-on for that, but I'm not even sure if it's supported anymore, and I don't think it worked that well anyway. And I also found it pretty hard to set-up. It's not a one-click install. If VLC was as good at subtitles as BSPlayer, I'd use only that and recommend it to all my friends, too. Now you have me intrigued with Splash Pro, though. I'll have to give that a try, especially on older PC's.

jbk 14y ago
VLC next version will have this add-on integrated.
- mtgx 14y ago
  Good to hear. I hope you can seek subtitles in more than just one source, though. It might help if you created your own database for subtitles and then promote it a little on your site. VLC is very popular, probably more popular than BSPlayer (I don't have any numbers), but if BSplayer can make their own subtitle database, you probably can, too. Also, I think VLC doesn't support localizations that well. Some letters in other languages look very weird, while the same subtitles work well in BSPlayer. Just something to look into.
  - jbk 14y ago
    The localization should be fixed, to be honest, since a few version.

Aardwolf 14y ago

The word "Pro" in its name tells enough.