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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by stordoff on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:44AM (#14409566)
Those restrictions work for you, but would make VLC borderline useless for me.

> I don't need any access to the network.

90+% of what I use it for comes from my NAS or the Internet.

> I don't have an optical drive

Most of the rest is from optical discs.

> I'm perfectly fine with a default / embedded font. [...] I'm fine opening a subtitle file myself.

It's _fine_ but far from ideal. Both are useful quality of life features.

> Why would I need to unzip anything?

Non-essential, but being able to play video from a ZIP is a useful feature.

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