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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by devindotcom on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:26PM (#25993365)
Curious whether there are/were plans for a VLC-lite that eschews the many more advanced features (transcoding, streaming, etc) and focuses purely on playback with as little overhead as possible?

Maybe I missed this discussion already but as much as I love VLC sometimes it feels like I'm using a semi truck to drive to the store and back.

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by jbk on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:42PM (#25993611)
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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