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You all might think that I'm a fanatic VLC hater, but let me tell you a story. I first attempted to use VLC a long time ago, it was pre 1.0 version. First thing was that the ***/SSA (styled subtitles) support was horrible. Secondly there was noticeable delay when pausing and pausing also caused the current subtitles disappear. The image scaling was horrible and VLC added some sort of light blur to anything. And the random artifact hell that also occurs after seeking, Well, I uninstalled it almost instantly.

Well then, some time ago they released the 1.0 version that was supposed to be "stable" or "feature complete" version as seen on the version number. Well, I'm delighted to say, that atleast they tried and the ***/SSA support is decent. Their brand new and revolutionary instant pause -feature doesn't work correctly and there is still the delay but this time only in audio. I mean seriously, this thing has been in development in 8 years now and the still don't have proper pause in a media player! Well, the "corrupt image" but still occurs regardless of the file. Well atleast I gave it another chance but I'm still not impressed. Perhaps this VLC thing is for the same people that think Internet Explorer is a good browser because they don't know of better...

****ing censors, A S S is "Advanced SubStation Alpha".

I'll install it on my N900 and I perhaps even might use it if it plays every file flawlessly

Originally Posted by f(x) View Post
1- Win7 & vlc will work the same under Linux (if you want a screen-shot/I will provide it to you)
2- It doesn't mean anything I just set vlc to work only on one processor and I couldn't notice any change in performance.
1. No need.
2. Are you saying that it's the same thing as 1.6Ghz VIA C-7M?

Last edited by joppu; 2009-11-02 at 18:39.