#vlc

@kaia The 10 extra seconds #VLC 4 beta needs to start on my ~4yo "gaming" laptop compared to good ol' 3.0.21.

UI revamps are never worth it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

Good for the economy though. Silicon engineers need to make things faster. Software engineers need to inefficiently add more features.

Everyone keeps their job. Collateral damage is the pleb consumers who burn out from having no free time and from paying for new hardware every year.

#VLC

If you're having trouble upgrading because of an issue with VLC, try this

https://blog.fyralabs.com/upgrade-error-with-vlc-plugins-freeworld/

#tech #linux #vlc #fedora #ultramarinelinux

Mastodon, necesito vuestra recomendación: Estoy buscando un reproductor de música para Windows tipo Windows Media, pero que reproduzca sin ningún problema todo tipo de FLAC (Windows Media no puede en algunos casos). Algunas cosas que me gustaría que tuviera:

1 - Que sea relativamente ligero y fácil de usar.
2 - Que permita organizar una "biblioteca de música".
3 - Que sea software libre y gratuito (que si me decís todos que Winamp es una maravilla, pues ok, pero si hay alternativas, mejor).
4 - Que no sea VLC. A ver, es lo que estoy usando porque sí reproduce música en FLAC, pero no me gusta porque no cumple con los dos primeros puntos o al menos yo no consigo que los cumpla.

#Música #WindowsMediaAlternative #WindowsMedia #Winamp #WinampAlternative #VLC #FLAC #ReproductorMúsica

@verita84 Great, let's talk about how everyone prefers at least neutral software, that doesn't shove undesirable stuff down my eye-holes.

I'd like to recommend that #VLC and #mpv make their Santa hat stuff OPT-IN, instead of reminding me of my unpleasant childhood, every single December.

The mpv devs even ridicule their users, by naming the config variable "greenandgrumpy=yes". That's not peaceful behaviour from the Christians towards everyone else! It is typically #Christian, though!

Для всех любителей старых добрых проверенных рабочих кодеков: VLC для Android не может воспроизвести MPEG-4 видео с кодеком XviD.

#VLC #Android #MPEG4 #XviD

I am having issues with MPV where the video on audio lags.
Then with VLC I have another issue where the audio is very choppy when resuming or starting.

Currently recompiling MPV with the hope that that will result the issue but I have a feeling the issue runs a bit deeper, my next attempt would be switching all dependencies of MPV to stable.

Anyone else has experienced this issue before?

#linux #mpv #vlc #gentoo

Does anyone know if there is a way for #VLC Media Player to retain #playlist data after closing the program? I had a crash today, and recreating my playlist was hard. I have tried saving to an XSPF playlist file, but these don't update with new entries (they seem to be read-only) If the feature doesn't exist, I am willing to put aside some money to send to VideoLAN to have it as a feature on Linux and other platforms.

#retention #music #media #player #software #freesoftware #ubuntu #crash #save #data

MTS files are a common container format for high-definition video, often used by HD camcorders, and can be played with various media players like VLC, or converted to other formats like MP4 using Handbrake or FFmpeg. Video editors like Kdenlive, Flowblade and Shortcut also support editing MTS files.

#Linux #MTS #HD #VLC #Handbrake #Kdenlive #FFmpeg #Shortcut #Flowblade

@Remittancegirl @aslakr I have never heard of tv.garden before today, so thanks for sharing... but of course the very first channel I click on is streaming some tech dude talking about VLC with a traffic cone on his head... #VLC #VideoLAN #TVgarden

Just found out I can stream videos from #Kodi (on the #RaspberryPi 4) to my #Android phone using the #Kore remote and #VLC (both on #FDroid). No need to turn the projector on to watch things from our local video library!
Love it when #FLOSS solutions work together flawlessly like this.

Thank you @VLC_Android, @fdroidorg, @Kodi !

(No reply-guys about "the setup is not entirely FLOSS", thank you very much.)

FOSS NEWS

Firefox receives new Terms of Use, Mozilla argues that it will offer users "more transparency" over their "rights and permissions", but its wording raises concerns, it only applies to the executable code though, so forks like LibreWolf probably won't be affected:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox
(Mozilla going down the dark path even further, what a surprise...)

Mozilla confirms Firefox will keep supporting Manifest V2:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/firefox-confirms-support-for-manifest-v2-and-v3-extensions-contrasting-google-s-phase-out/
(The only thing they do right nowadays)

VLC project celebrates 20 years anniversary with a new “LUNAR TIME CAPSULE” where people can send their personal videos to the Moon, videos will be stored on microSD cards enclosed in a sealed titanium capsule:
https://news.itsfoss.com/vlc-moon-expedition/
(UFOs after watching the videos: oh this human breed is so dumb, they won't be a treat to us, they'll destroy themselves anyways, let's just leave them alone with their bs)

Nextcloud Hub 10 released with new AI agent for performing various tasks (creating calendar entries, reading messages, writing emails etc.) with the option to self-host AI agent:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/nextcloud-hub-10-launches-with-a-new-open-source-ai-agent-improved-file-management-and-more/
(Oh yeah now Nexcloud users will also be dumbed down by AI doing everything instead of them lol)

Luanti 5.11.0 released with in-game settings menu, touchscreen layout editor, more server list info in online server list etc.:
https://blog.luanti.org/2025/02/14/5.11.0-released/

(Linux news in original post)

#WeeklyNews #News #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenSourceNews #FOSSNews #Firefox #Mozilla #VLC #VLCMediaPlayer #Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #Luanti #Minetest #MozillaFirefox #WebBrowser #CloudStorage #VideoGame #FOSSGame #OpenSourceGame #Privacy #FosseryTech

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- #K9Mail developer quits Mozilla, thanks @cketti for all the good work
- #surveillance laws want #backdoor access in #France again
- #FOSSGIS 2025 in March, get the app
- #onionshare crash fix soon
- #RiMusic might be in danger
- #SimpleX has group growing pains
- #Termux GUI is finally available
- #Threema Libre reacts
- #VLC with Remote Access
- #XScreenSaver has nice privacy policy

Click for +218 lines of news: https://f-droid.org/2025/02/27/twif.html

Have you noticed there's a lot more drama going on here lately?

@finn and I did at least, so we wrote a blog post talking about what happened with VLC and Google, how that drama formed and what you can do to stop spreading misinformation.

https://steffo.blog/outrage-warps-reality/

This is my first-ever blog post that I wrote with someone together, so I hope the way I show what's written by whom is understandable.

Anyway, thank you, Finn, for helping me write such an important blog post. I think I couldn't have done it without you!

#blog #android #google #safetycore #vlc #ai #drama #fediverse

#vlc #opensource #meme #foss

#UnplugTrump - Tipp10:
Setze möglichst auf Open-Source-Software für deine Büroarbeiten. LibreOffice bietet nahezu alle Funktionen, die du von Microsoft Office kennst, ohne deine Daten an ein US-Unternehmen zu senden. GIMP ist eine großartige Alternative zu Adobe Photoshop, und VLC spielt deine Medien ab, ohne dich zu überwachen.

#LibreOffice #GIMP #VLC #NoMicrosoft #NoAdobe #opensource #datenschutz #privacy

The Linux desktop looks disorganized because each application has a different theme. There is unification through color.

#Linux #KDE #OBS #Kdenlive #Handbrake #VLC #color #theme #themes

#vlc on #fedora #kde isn't able to play movies from smb shares by default.

Copying /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications, editing the file and removing 'smb' from the Keywords line is enough to make it work properly.

I guess I'll go hunt for a bugreport!

Windows 10 will no longer receive free software updates, technical assistance, or security fixes after 14.10.2025.

Consider migrating to Linux: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/112240288637362593

The following applications are available via Linux and Windows, try them without having to install Linux.

Office Suite: #LibreOffice / @libreoffice
Email Client: #Thunderbird / @thunderbird
Media Player: #VLC / @videolan

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#Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Linux #CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS