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by jbk 5y ago
> Now is the perfect time for Open Source maintainers to become legible to the big companies that depend on them—and that want to get more out of them—and send them five-to-six figure invoices. Well, this is exactly what I've been d
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by jbk 5y ago
Vlc supports original Winamp skins… I plan to improve this in the future btw :)
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US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console(arstechnica.com)
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by jbk 5y ago
VLC on iOS
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Dav1d 0.9.1: A Ton of Asm(jbkempf.com)
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by jbk 5y ago
Even on the beta of the next Safari?
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by jbk 5y ago
Yes, unfortunately, the blog is in French, but it's easy to understand/translate, with the video and the pictures...
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From System 7.1 to macOS (High Sierra) with the same SSD without formatting [FR](journaldulapin.com)
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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies(venturebeat.com)
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by jbk 6y ago
> "Accessible" should be the default, not an option. The file menu being present should be the default, not an option. This is your opinion. Weirdly, all the other programs are doing it differently. So maybe, your opinion is t
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by jbk 6y ago
And as I said, this is an option.
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by jbk 6y ago
No, but you have a compatibility mode. And the 3.0 version still exist.
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by jbk 6y ago
> Maybe perhaps with v4 these small QOL things could be implemented. This is on our roadmap. > But on topic, how far is VLC 4 from release? Quite far, of course.
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by jbk 6y ago
All of those are early issues that are going to be fixed. See my post above.
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by jbk 6y ago
(President of VideoLAN here) Sorry to say, but the article is quite useless, and a bit misleading. It's talking about a work-in-progress work, which is very far from being finished. None of those big issues are wanted. Of course, the v
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by jbk 6y ago
Dolby
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by jbk 6y ago
> but isn’t it basically a GUI around FFMPEG No, it isn't. VLC is doing a lot more than just wrapping libavcodec. Look at the source code of VLC. To give you an idea, VLC is around 800 kLoC, the UI taking 60 kLoC, and the core 100 k
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by jbk 6y ago
Did you try 3.3.4? We improved audiobook support over there.
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by jbk 6y ago
We do monitor the security of VLC quite closely, because of that.
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by jbk 6y ago
We're working on sandboxing VLC, for this very reason :) Stay tuned about that.
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by jbk 6y ago
Absolutely not normal. Disable hardware decoder ?
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by jbk 6y ago
> The problem could also be solved by putting vlc itself in a sandbox It cannot, no. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409234
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by jbk 6y ago
Help is welcome :)
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by jbk 6y ago
Because Chromecast is not done for push, but for pull. And because noone cares enough to fix it, I would guess...
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by jbk 6y ago
Software patents on multimedia.
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by jbk 6y ago
This is a Qt bug, which VLC uses for its UI.
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by jbk 6y ago
A bit, to be honest. Which is why we're doing some professional work to fund it.
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by jbk 6y ago
> Are there any plans for an UI refresh? yes, for 4.0
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by jbk 6y ago
In VLC 4.0, we'll add RAVU, NNEDI3 and a few other to upscale.
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by jbk 6y ago
"Plays it all." but we're working so that new features don't slow down the player, at runtime.

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