The History of VLC Media Player 💻 #tech #technology #developer #vlc #software #retrotech

[sa_ad]

Its a legend among Open source free software

[hriatna]

Plus that extra sound boost option is hella useful

[mohammadsaddam]

The best thing about vlc is the ability to play even a corrupted file. My only memory of my grandad is a corrupted .mov file, and vlc doesn't disappoint me even if it only plays a small part of the whole video

[KalravSrivastava]

VLC is absolutely amazing!!
That and WinRar are goated

[MarcSpctr]

Forget video content, it can play audio as well show photos.

Many times if file extension of a file is missing and I am not sure whether it is a audio, video or photo, I just open it with VLC and boom now I know what the file was.

Not to mention it also plays even corrupted files so we can at least see bits and pieces of the file to know what the contents were, so if possible we can get them from other sources back.

[robertoprestigiacomo]

My routine every time I buy a new computer:
1) Set Firefox as default browser
2) Install VLC
3) Mod the new windows graphic interface

[vincentl]

There is also a legal aspect to it. Since VLC foundation is from France they are able to avoid some video format patents that Microsoft can't. And that's why to visualize some format on the windows media player you have to go to the windows store and pay some money while in VLC it's already included

[jackthegeat]

VLC is legitimately impressive. it brute forced its way through old, corrupted VHS home video tapes that my grandfather had. It can and will play *anything*

[chrisbalfour]

Starting over from scratch is underrated. Sometimes it's the best solution to clean up messes or change project directions, or programming techniques.

[Viperever]

It really is the GOAT. Always plays whatever video you ask of it.

[Ggdivhjkjl]

VLC's Christmas hat in the tray is always cute.

[pauljoseph]

Huge difference between programmers wanting to leave a legacy, and those who wanna take every penny.

[edelzocker]

My default software:
- Firefox for Websites
- Thunderbird for E-Mails
- VLC for Video and Audio
- Okular for PDF and EPUB (E-Books)
- Krita for painting and photo editing
- KdenLive for Video editing
- Ventoy for bootable drives

[AndersonPEM]

VLC is an absolute legend. You can compile it to run even in a piece of stone as a target and it will work. You can have the most corrupted video file ever. It will play you a part of it. Legend certified OSS.

[napoleonkhan]

If you speak French, you can find very interesting interviews of the founder and manager of the software.

[Chris_ofln]

I grew up with VLC so I always took its ability to play any format for granted

[william_]

I miss Media Player 😅 It was supper light

[SmugMatty]

The fact that it seems to play any kind of video format that exists is what got me to use VLC (That and being free lol)

[martins]

Rewriting from scratch does have some magical advantages... I had a project from university that I had pretty much coded everything, but nothing would work and I could figure out why. After quite a lot of time without any advances I decided to sit down and rewrite it and after 3 not even long days it worked. I even compared both projects and could find the difference in the end...

[electronics]

Vlc easily plays my old dvds via an external usb dvd drive and its on linux and other osses too!