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Other than playing with fun technologies (which I'm all for) what does this bring us?

It doesn't seem to play many formats (one of the major strengths of VLC is that it plays almost anything) nothing I saw about it that seems to scream innovative UI or super efficient playblack on low-end devices.

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We wanted to see how easy it was to build "native" apps with html/css/javascript today using atom-shell. And it turns out that it's actually quite easy.

A feature we missed from VLC was that you could send video to Chromecast. That feature is now in Playback.

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