it's a mediocre media player, i don't really use it anymore. blender, Linux, ffmpeg, gcc, llvm, V8, cpython are all far more important just to name a few

I have always had minor issues with VLC with video playback when seeking or playing certain videos that mpv has never, ever, ever had. mpv just works.

VLC is a nice piece of software but it's just never beaten mpv for me.

I've ran into a few issues with VLC. That being said, I'd probably only ever replace VLC with WinAmp.

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

Winamp, I don't need you anymore.

I prefer mplayer—novel-length man page and all—for video, but there's nothing innately wrong with VLC. I did try it, a very long time ago, but it felt too GUI-oriented for my taste back then.

(I can think of exactly two times mplayer has failled to play a file I presented it with, and in both cases it was my own fault for not compiling in support for that codec. However, the man page is justifiably frightening.)

Click to continue where you left off.

Resizes window.

Moves button off screen.

3 seconds to hit that button or you lose your place.

I have the iOS app and it cannot play my MP4 files from my phone. I don’t know what to do.

And to top it all off, release codenames are Discworld references!

It is technically illegal in most places due to copyright