• @xmunk
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      224 months ago

      Absolutely VLC, VLC was excellent at what it does before codec issues were even that widespread.

    • @mindbleach
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      204 months ago

      Words cannot convey how sketchy the MP4 codec scene was, pirating media in the Windows XP era. Every month you’d have to find some DivX CCCP K-Lite [cracked].7zip.exe and roll the fuckin’ dice.

      We were very proficient at reinstalling our operating systems.

      • @[email protected]
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        114 months ago

        VLC does use ffmpeg (or more specifically, libavcodec) for some of its codecs, but it uses a bunch of other libraries as well, including VLC specific ones.