However, since VLC is getting too mainstream, I see more and more of hate that is unjustified. When asked why, they cannot explain why. This is a bit annoying to be honest.
Finally, VLC being Cross-Platform cannot be the best on all platforms. We do our best, but we cannot be 100% perfect, especially with so little time. We need to do a company, but what Business Model?
It can open all media files we care until today.
It displays subtitles correctly.
It enhances the sound of some media files that would otherwise have lower volume level when played on Windows Media Player.
It is cross-platform: we use it on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Did I tell you that people around me are happy users (regardless the UI tweak?) because it just works with minimum effort to install?
Keep the very good work.
This is a great timesaver for keynotes, lectures, and shows which move too slowly ;)
I really wish there would be some sort of plugin that could select an even higher speed for silent/quiet parts.
I figured "how hard could it be" (having some experience writing tiny softsynths in the past I wouldn't even mind writing a low quality pitch-preserving resample filter) but digging into it, coding a plugin for VLC is pretty arcane. At least, I couldn't figure it out without having to dig into all sorts of audio/video decoding issues I didn't really want to get in to.
If anyone has any tips it would be greatly appreciated. I cannot promise I'll manage to code that particular filter but at least I can have some fun writing crazy VLC filter effects :)
I love it to bits, keep up the good work! Haters are a reeeeally small minority.
That's why I recommend it to everyone and why everyone I know uses it.