Re:A new core playlist for VLC 4
by lmm on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:08AM
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It was notorious for crash bugs and poor implementations of "advanced" format features. A major fansub group got fed up of complaints to the point where they put out an episode that deliberately triggered bugs in VLC's ASS rendering to make their subtitles unreadable on VLC (I think this was gg with code geass episode... 16? 17?). That particular problem was solved when VLC abandoned their subtitle rendering code and switched to using mplayer's libass, but for a long time there were similar concerns about support for other formats (e.g. rendering 10-bit video correctly).
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So it was actually a specific group that had a specific problem with it and it wasn't a wide spread and general opinion. Well...
GG were the most trollish about it (since I figured you'd want a specific documented incident to refer to), but it was a widespread and general opinion among anime video encoders (and to the best of my knowledge any video encoders who were pushing the boundaries at the time shared the same views, though I'm less familiar with the non-anime communities).