A new core playlist for VLC 4

Re:A new core playlist for VLC 4 by raindropm on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:52AM (#19979499)

IINA is simply great. It's video player that just work. The same experience when I use PotPlayer on Windows.

My experience with VLC never good. Even the modern version. It somehow feels...clunky? Some random error randomly happened. As the matter of fact, I just download the latest version and test it about 5 minutes ago on my iMac, open some video, and BAM, some weird glitch happened on my screen (like graphic card error) It disappear when I quit it though.

Yet everyone, every tech author always recommended it. Maybe I'm just unlucky? :/

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Re:A new core playlist for VLC 4 by fireattack on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:17AM (#19979620)

I have yet to find a single player in recent years that does not "just work".

If I want to have advanced settings for various things (mainly a/v decoders), I would choose carefully, but to "just work" I would say almost all actively developed media players can do that fine.

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Re:A new core playlist for VLC 4 by mrec on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:10PM (#19983814)

I don't know about Win10, but the default Win7 media player is still a steaming pile of poo. Can't play many formats, stupid and uncustomizable keyboard shortcuts, occasionally decides to display some videos as audio+visualization instead, insists on trying to default you to the worst possible settings after every update.

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Re:A new core playlist for VLC 4 by wink on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:08AM (#19990899)

I'd say so, I've not used anything other than VLC for the last 5+ years on Linux and Windows and don't remember that it failed to play anything, even the stuff customers threw at us.

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