I imagine he always wears this hat in public.
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.
VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.
I like his hat
Mpc is better
While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.
They’re both free, you don’t have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.
I don’t understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.
Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.
Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.
it’s been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.
What anime are you watching that requires a playlist that large? I only assume it’s an anime because what else could possibly have 2000-4000 episodes?
I was assuming audio tracks rather than video.
I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it’s so performant you can easily customize it.
But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.
I tried to like MPV, I just can’t, potplayer lets me easily customize the subtitles so easily.
should have taken the money.
Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It’s an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you’re really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don’t care.
and with enough money I don’t care.
Most people are like you.
Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth’s natural history.
I’ve come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.
Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.
If most humans were like Kempf (we’re not), we’d actually have a chance.
And that’s why your picture isn’t on the front page of Lemmy 2day!
