15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by jbk on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:20AM (#11017745)

> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals.

We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by na85 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:42AM (#11017805)

>We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

Thank you for not doing it.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by moonshinefe on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:12AM (#11018587)

Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by pjc50 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:43AM (#11018505)

The message I'm getting here is that we the users should probably send you more money.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by illbert on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:05AM (#11018941)

Thank you for not doing it, have my donation instead!

cheers for a great piece of software I use and love since probably around 12 years :)!

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by slipstream- on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:07AM (#11018947)

Would be nice to see the text of those offers, like the way the rpi foundation released the text of the offer they got (I've started to investigate the PUP ecosystem, and now said ecosystem includes the shittiest Indian winlockers and fakealert trojans, designed to get less knowledgeable user to call fake tech support)

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by jbk on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:58AM (#11019741)

mail me and I can send some of those.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by frik on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:52AM (#11017828)

Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by dagw on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:10AM (#11018576)

everyone moved to alternatives

Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by gesman on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:59PM (#11022039)

Second +WinSCP.

The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by bvr22 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:02AM (#11018742)

client-side, you can use WinSCP, free, supports SCP, SFTP and FTP protocols. You can also use any piece of software on your computer to edit remote files, you juste have to configure file extensions in the parameters (like MSWord for .doc/.docx, notepad++ for .txt/.log/whatever, etc)

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by dagw on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:21AM (#11018804)

I use WinSCP when I can and quite like it. The big problems is that for some reason it is so much slower at downloading and especially uploading files that it really isn't usable in many cases.

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by zerr on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:46AM (#11018683)

Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by joosters on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:31AM (#11018837)

What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?

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Re:15 years of VLC and VideoLAN by zerr on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:18PM (#11021722)

I've seen freeware antivirus bundled (McAfee, Avast). Can be useful for some people.

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