Reminder that VLC has been to the moon and back.
Most users have no idea that it’s much more than a video player. The interface is sofa king bad for anything BUT video playing.
Even just playing videos, it doesn’t have reverse step frame-by-frame, because they outright refuse to implement it, even though other players have had it for many years without any problems.
At least 200 of the reported downloads are just me 😅
After all these years, I still smile when I see the annual Santa hat logo change. 😅
This is a meaningless metric: lots of people probably got it from sources they have no way of tracking (e.g. distro repos), others may be crawlers, etc. etc.
SEveral hundred of those are mine.
VLC good, but mpv peak.
oh, there’s plenty of better alternatives, but VLC’s been certifiably “good enough” for 25+ years.
If I have issues with VLC, my go-to alternative is ffplay
Depends™ I have seen plenty of videos that had problems on mpv but ran perfectly fine on VLC and vice versa.
So we can now say everybody and their mom uses VLC? (There’s also a lot of unreported downloads from distro package caches and unofficial mirrors)
Beautiful. All these people, using it to watch their totally legal downloaded videos. Arrrg!
