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901.
by jbk 14y ago
No software is perfect. However, for H.264 (x264? sigh) decoding VLC 2.x with multi-threaded decoding should eat all the files without issues (no reports so far).
902.
by jbk 14y ago
Yes, a lot of them. VLC contributions have mainly been done by 2 dozens of persons. If any of Rémi Denis-Courmont, Laurent Aimar, Gildas Bazin, Pierre d'Herbemont, Rafaël Carré (or me) would have disagreed, I would have stopped right away.
903.
by jbk 14y ago
Rémi Denis-Courmont is the biggest contributor of VLC, so far, and he pushed forward the LGPL move... :)
904.
by jbk 14y ago
The main reason, is that VLC is too mainstream... For people who want to spend hours to configure their system, MPC-HC with madVR can give better upscaling and foobar gives better audio fidelity. Most of the rest is usual rants from issues
905.
by jbk 14y ago
Subtitles rendering of VLC 2.0.x is quite high quality, since the video output changes of 2.0. Audio pausing is fixed since a long time on all platforms and on development version for Windows. Seeking on H.264 and MKV ordered chapters issue
906.
by jbk 14y ago
This is resolved in development version, and for half of them in 2.0.4.
907.
by jbk 14y ago
Thanks a lot :)
908.
by jbk 14y ago
2 authors out of 230 is not that much... And for example, the author of headphone objected only on Headphone and Dolby, but allowed the rest of his code to be changed.
909.
by jbk 14y ago
Part 3 is coming soon, about FAQ and numbers, but part2 is probably the most interesting one, indeed.
910.
by jbk 14y ago
I did delete some code, and rewrote some. But not for many people.
911.
by jbk 14y ago
Possibly, yes. But so far, iOS aout and vout are not LGPL.
912.
by jbk 14y ago
This is my website :) (I did not expect that to come on HN, to be honest) Anyway, the title is, of course, misleading. VLC core, named libVLCcore is LGPL since last year (I did it too in december) and the wrapper for 3rd party applications
913.
by jbk 14y ago
But then, it would miss the joke... All caca labs projects are of the same kind: libcaca, libpipi, toilet, etc...
914.
by jbk 14y ago
And yet, I do not see how a media player can do anything about it.
915.
by jbk 14y ago
Yes, we are trying to fix this, by proving it correctly, but cheap people like HP are trying to screw users with that.
916.
by jbk 14y ago
Good catch. :) (of course, this is HN) Mosaic is using VLM, but VLC's main playlist does not use it :)
917.
by jbk 14y ago
This is, of course, nonsense. This is software amplification, so at worse, you clip everything. It's like saying that you should not listen to metal or experimental music because it is more saturated and might destroy your speakers. The sof
918.
by jbk 14y ago
> Also, people have been willing to put up with RealPlayer, which is even worse for playing music. The number of people using RealPlayer is incredible, indeed.
919.
by jbk 14y ago
Disclaimer: VLC main developer here. I would love to tell you that VLC (or mplayer or xine or whatever-video-engine) is great to play music, but it is not. And yet, a lot of person use VLC to play music, to our own astonishment. Therefore,
920.
ARM and Imagination take over MIPS for $350m(theinquirer.net)
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921.
by jbk 14y ago
Still no Native code options? No thank you... Javascript is great for many applications, but multimedia and games are not in this case. Moreover, I don't see what Firefox OS brings that Android cannot do...
922.
by jbk 14y ago
Thanks.
923.
by jbk 14y ago
> Re: networking, you are of course right. At the same time, I can sympathize with Microsoft's decision to abandon Winsock. Cross-platform use of BSD sockets is mired in a deplorable mess of #defines and '90s incompatibilities. For new
924.
by jbk 14y ago
> Wow. That's pretty ridiculous. So DirectX is allowed? DirectX11 with 2 compatible modes (D3D9 and D3D10)
925.
by jbk 14y ago
Well, outputting video and audio should not be too hard to adapt (almost work out of the box). Decoding does not do system calls, except for hardware decoding, so no worry. File input is worrying because of the sandbox, but should be doable
926.
by jbk 14y ago
Well, there are a few good reasons for that: coding for WinRT is harder than it should be, and the developers are not fans of the WinRT UI (so they don't use it). I am in this very situation, with an app with has dozens of millions of users
927.
by jbk 14y ago
I have been using the Ux31 (previous version, only 1600x900) on Arch and Windows 8, and I am quite impressed too. I have been a heavy Thinkpad (T42 and T61p) and Macbook Pro user, and I had the chance to test other Ultrabooks, like the Sams
928.
by jbk 14y ago
> We also generally agree, in 2012, that goto is flat-out inappropriate for source code in most modern programs. Exceptions to this policy exist, but they’re extremely rare. No, we don't agree. In C, goto is very often the best way to d
929.
by jbk 14y ago
No, I don't. I don't have anything more than the DVB-T and DVB-S channels.
930.
by jbk 14y ago
While I can undestand (not share) his opinion about AdBlock, I have a more difficult time understanding his grudge against Ghostery. Ghostery makes it very easy to block all social buttons and analytics (like google-analytics, that fails to

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