Re:Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
by sorbits on Sunday February 19, 2012 @12:55AM
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While praising this player let me add that I absolutely love the ability for increased playback speed!
This is a great timesaver for keynotes, lectures, and shows which move too slowly ;)
Re:Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
by tripzilch on Monday February 20, 2012 @05:52PM
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This is absolutely true. Some keynote speakers just speak rather slowly, or repeat themselves and you can easily get away with 1.3x speed. Even though it sounds funny.
I really wish there would be some sort of plugin that could select an even higher speed for silent/quiet parts.
I figured "how hard could it be" (having some experience writing tiny softsynths in the past I wouldn't even mind writing a low quality pitch-preserving resample filter) but digging into it, coding a plugin for VLC is pretty arcane. At least, I couldn't figure it out without having to dig into all sorts of audio/video decoding issues I didn't really want to get in to.
If anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated. I cannot promise I'll manage to code that particular filter but at least I can have some fun writing crazy VLC filter effects :)
It can open all media files we care until today.
It displays subtitles correctly.
It enhances the sound of some media files that would otherwise have lower volume level when played on Windows Media Player.
It is cross-platform: we use it on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Did I tell you that people around me are happy users (regardless the UI tweak?) because it just works with minimum effort to install?
Keep the very good work.