Thread: VLC Player Officially coming
View Single Post
joppu's Avatar
joppu is offline joppu
2009-11-04 , 13:33
Posts: 780 | Thanked: 855 times | Joined on Sep 2009 @ Helsinki, Finland
#94
Originally Posted by redenisc View Post
I have no accurate statistics, but I believe mplayer to be the most popular media player on Linux. OTOH, gstreamer would most probably claim to be "the common way" for being endorsed by FreeDesktop and quite a bunch of distros (including Maemo in fact).
Yes, gstreamer offers an excellent framework but the performance leaves a bit to be desired.

Originally Posted by redenisc View Post
The implication that VLC is not obedient to standards is offensive. VLC receives a lot of invalid bug reports to support broken files from stupid embedded devices or random crappy FFmpeg-on-Windows front-ends. It is also well-known to be rather strict about properly formatted MPEG streams or SDP syntax for instance.
I still don't get it, why does it then still cause the artifact mess when jumping in time and dropping frames? Or is it a feature of the player itself?

Originally Posted by redenisc View Post
As for those subtitle formats you're complaining, the biggest problem has been crappy support for upstream libraries. Lets face it, the maintenance history of libass is a mess. To make things worse, VLC did not see a proper release for 2 years between 0.8.6 and 0.9.2.
Yes, it's always the upstream. How come FFDSHOW on windows and MPlayer have had the proper subtitle support for longer? Are they using a different library or what?

Originally Posted by redenisc View Post
Comparing with (s)mplayer is unfair if you use the bleeding edge SVN mplayer/FFmpeg version with the official VLC release. If you really want to compare properly, use bleeding edge master branches for both of them.
It's not my fault that the SMPlayer installer installs the latest SVN of MPlayer and the official VLC installer installs this "outdated" version.
__________________
My blog (mostly about my themes)