[Leaplist] MMS

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Kevin Korb wrote:
> There are only two things I have ever seen vlc do.  Dump core or produce
> static.  I have never seen it do anything productive.  I have only tried
> it on Linux though.

And not being Kevin, I've never had these problems with VLC.  Sure, it 
doesn't work 100% of the time (the same way every *nix media player 
doesn't work 100% of the time, because they all use a different back-end 
and/or configuration mechanism), but for all normal usage it works just 
fine.  I've mainly used it on Linux and OSX (where Quicktime has crap for 
codec support).  Of course I don't use Gentoo, so it was probably compiled 
with a tested and known-working set of options.

Speaking of dumping core, the only media player that I've had enough 
consistant issues with over the year has been Xine.  But its been many 
years since I've bothered trying Xine for anything anyways.

The only real issues I've ever had with VLC are with its UI, and those 
issues are just because whoever wrote it assumed there were only two 
serious use cases: streaming media, and playlist-loading.  Of course its 
getting better in recent versions.

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  Derek Konigsberg
  dkonigsberg at logicprobe.org
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