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  • Claudiusclaudius@darmstadt.social
    Jun 21, 2026, 11:21 PM

    @jwz @mhoye some designers will say it is a bad UI. And yet *everyone who works with video* gravitates to VLC. Everyone. It is just that good.

    Even people who don't have it as a default, at least keep it around for the cases where it's the only thing that works.

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  • jwzjwz@mastodon.social
    Jun 21, 2026, 11:49 PM

    @claudius @mhoye Your "just that good" is my "the only thing that works at all in a sea of bad options". That is not something to celebrate.

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  • Claudiusclaudius@darmstadt.social
    Jun 21, 2026, 11:58 PM

    @jwz @mhoye There's a lot of software that I've been using for 15+ years. I don't think a single one caused as few problems as VLC has.

    So, yeah, I'm really fine with it just the way it is.

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  • mhoyemhoye@cosocial.ca
    Jun 22, 2026, 12:00 AM

    @claudius @jwz I can’t find it in me to hate the UI. If I open something in VLC it plays. If I open up a list of things they play in order, or shuffle if I want that. I’ve never been asked to rate it or support it or get ready for new features or literally any goddamn thing. Zero drama, zero ads, zero bullshit. What else do we want?

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  • Claudiusclaudius@darmstadt.social
    Jun 22, 2026, 12:05 AM

    @mhoye @jwz 95% of my use are "i double click a file, VLC opens. I double click the window, it goes fullscreen. I am happy."

    3% are like "I double click a file, VLC opens, I use the timeline slider because I look for something specific"

    2% are like "I need some oddbal weird feature like opening the desktop recording while streaming to some target in a format nobody else (except ffmpeg, of course. OF COURSE.) understands.

    The buttons look like windows 95 buttons. That does not matter to me.

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