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by jbk 6y ago
> Will there be a way to turn off all of the extra library functionality? yes.
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> Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Pretty fun, tbh.
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They change the layout of the pages often, to block VLC and youtube-dl
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> Has this ever been a feature you have considered adding? Next major release
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> What does your project management do right to find the right features without adding bloat? 3 answers: - limited resources - modules: adding features is often just a new module, which does not slow VLC. - only devs :)
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> When will VideoLAN focus on color accuracy Next major release of VLC.
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Yes, there is a big project on that those days :)
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> the development experience when trying to incorporate the SDK into your own software is utterly miserable. It's not miserable anymore, but yes, it's far from good. If you are not doing something very simple, it can be very ha
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Under development
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> Can you add to VLC a support for reading subtitles with the os screen reader? it's already doable. But it does disable the display of subtitles.
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Technically, most of those features are only in modules, and you can remove most of those already and have a functioning VLC. We don't remove them, because besides disk space, they don't take any CPU or RAM of the user.
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It was an ATM backbone, but the routers did not support mcast. So they cheated to do multicast on a non-multicast network.
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CDG files? yes :)
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> Was that intentional? And were you ever tempted to go the same route UI-wise as other media players? If you suck at UI, hide your UI. :) Else, we're working on updating the UI, but that's very difficult for a small open sourc
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> Would you port VLC UI from Qt to something like Electron or some other web-based solution? No. We're moving some parts to QML, but that's C++ (and the part that are JS are moving to C++ in Qt6)
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> What happened internally when you discovered that you were given a false severe grade CVE? Nothing, but we knew it was going to be a shitstorm. Clickbait articles are very annoying. As for the CVE system, it's utterly broken and i
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> But if this attitude is prevalent, do you feel you are having a harder time attracting talent than say 10-20 years ago? A lot lot lot harder than in the past. You have no idea...
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> Can you describe what happened with them? They are dead. VLS features are now done with DVBlast. The other are useless with modern networks.
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> How do you fund your work? Have you had to take a pay cut to work on VLC compared to working on similar commercial tech? VideoLAN does not make any money outside of donations. I have a startup, called Videolabs since 2013.
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This story involves drinking students and internal jokes :)
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> Dumb joke: When it turns 21, what would be the drink that VLC would like? We're French, we don't wait the legal age to drink. :D
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The video at the end of the press release explains the story. But in tl;dr: form: Ecole Centrale Paris campus network was managed by students. In 1995, they wanted a faster network, to play video games, and upgrade from their Token Ring n
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by jbk 6y ago
As usual, please don't hesitate to ask questions about VLC, VideoLAN or related projects (x264, dav1d, libbluray...) Disclaimer: VideoLAN president
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VideoLAN is 20 years old today(videolan.org)
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Doable.
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Doable.
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by jbk 6y ago
Contact me.
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Contact me.
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Contact me.
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by jbk 6y ago
VLC & FFmpeg | Low-level Software Engineer | Paris or REMOTE, INTERNS | Full-time You want to work on open-source projects, you know C/C++ and multimedia interests you? We work on numerous things from codecs, system integration to

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