I may try this out - I had to move away from VLC because getting it to properly do hardware decoding/deinterlacing on Linux has been like pulling teeth.
If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working right in VLC.
I had moved to MPC-BE (Media player classic home cinema black edition) due its superior UI and 4K hardware support and dual-device audio-output (PC 5.1 speaker plus over HDMI to TV). And MPC-BE allows one to quickly skip through a movie by dragging the mouse. And MPC-BE can play partly corrupt files too, one can even skip around such files. VLC 2x sucks at all these things, yet it's still better than traditional Windows Media Player or iTunes. VLC 1x was quite good back then, but 2x was a let down and MPC-HC and MPC-BE are simply better for several things. But let me try VLC 3 again, maybe things improved.
> SMPLayer
It's a light GUI over ffmpeg library, so the video playback is great, but the UI looked like a fisherprice toy and it was a rough experience two years ago. On Win64 MPC-BE is a lot better.
Edit: I might be close to paranoid but I've seen to many cases of nice freeware or open source software getting compromised or even selling out to adware.
Seems like a false positive, Windows Defender stopped reporting it as infected after definitions update. sha256 of the file in question is f7540af3ad4aa7e6f02c850bfe428d65e481f8b4c00c2927f72b62450f4ec42b .
I've always found VLC's UX very awkward. Very happy with mpv.io. On Windows, MPC-HC until it's been abandoned recently; Replaced it with MPC-QT, which is a mpc-hc-like UX but implemented using libmpv.
Yeah, but it can't skip 5 seconds ahead. I mean, ostentatiously, it can, but with horrible lags and jerking. I can't watch a video where I don't have fast skip. MPlayer, a much worse player than VLC, had instant skip for all file formats. Youtube has instant skip. But VLC doesn't even use the forward/backward keys for skipping, it uses Alt-Cmd-Arrow or some arcane combo. Clearly they dropped the ball on skipping.
Its a video player (well thats what it primarily gets used for). The vast majority of use cases are simple enough that the UI doesn't get in the way. (Though I do agree it hasn't got the best UI).
Can't wait for this. I've been using nightlies to get the new subtitle renderer and have been very happy (aside from unrelated minor playback regressions).
I'll wait for the .1 release but the current version of VLC on android and Ubuntu have been pretty flakey. In android have lost all my playists and least twice and in Ubuntu playing full screen video cause the computer to lock up to a hard reset.
I hope this is just a rough patch for VLC which has been a great application for a long time.
Yeah, I'd been using the Chromecast support in the earlier 3.0 betas. Seemed to be working just fine, although it wasn't getting the "friendly" name that I'd set for the device. So instead of "Living Room TV", I'd see a big hash-code.
Chromecaaast! I might ditch my HTPC currently running OpenELEC on a Acer Revo, and just waz out movies from my phone. There's always some damn problem with OpenELEC - the whole library/file management is confusing as all hell for one thing.
Do you have a source for that? I thought Google only broke the APIs when people tried to clone Cchromecast functionality in another device form factor, or create an emulator for a Chromecast, not just implementing the normal "Cast to" functionality.
This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts.
Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around in cmd.exe... It feels so not worth it, especially compared to the Netflix.com experience.
1. You really don't need MadVR. The default install of MPC HC or BE should be fine.
2. VLC has this resizing behavior that I do not understand how people tolerate. It just feels clumsy compared to MPC which feels more native. VLC is a good backup if or when MPC fails.
What I am saying is MPC is better for watching porn than VLC.
If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working right in VLC.