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VLC is the supreme of all open source projects, you used it in school, college, work and home.

I used it since I was a child and it has never failed on me. It didn't matter what type of file you chucked at it, it would run it.

Do you disagree or agree with VLC being the best media player? What are your thoughts?

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[-] aarroyoc@lemuria.es 2 points 5 months ago

VLC ships their own codecs which is great on Windows, but a bit suboptimal on a typical Linux desktop installation since you're probably going to have GStreamer or ffmpeg available too for the rest of the software like video editors, web browsers, etc

[-] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago

VLC just uses ffmpeg...

[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

FFmpeg (libavcodec) is just one of 22 codecs that VLC is shipped with

https://wiki.videolan.org/Contrib_Status#Codecs

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