VLC 2.0 released

  On 2/19/2012 at 9:30 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 9:28 PM, Babar said:

this is a serious argument though. Some people use their computer to watch movies (from a couch or a bed), and if they have a wireless mouse, this feature comes in handy. I assume scrolling back and forth should allow you to travel through the movie then.

 

scrolling back and forth changes the volume in VLC.

 

again, as for pausing a film using the middle mouse button - i've never heard of that. and if you're using a wireless mouse to control the film, why not just move the cursor to the pause button? lol

because it's not easy to use the mouse on a soft surface like the sheets of a bed.

edit: i'm not claiming there is a perfect user interface, but I think the solution I described is the best suited for the situation I evoked (inspired by the life of my couch-potato friend)

And to echo what vasio said, people have the right to prefer a solution rather than another one. If you go to a company to install a new information treatment system, you'd better take into account their preferences and ways of working. Actually many companies have sunk because information system engineers haven't taken into accounts or failed to fit their needs.

  On 2/20/2012 at 11:21 AM, vasio said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 9:14 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 8:45 PM, vasio said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 8:34 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 6:07 PM, vasio said:

VLC would be the best if it wasn't for the retarded interface, which is so typical to these open-source programs like Gimp and even FF which is only usable after you install an assload of extensions which make it even slower than it already is.

 

you know you can customise the interface directly from within VLC, right? without the need for any extenstions at all?

 

oh what's that? yes, you are talking out of your arse.

 

I know and I have done that but my issue is more about the menus, preferences and some of the customization which on some things goes beyond necessary, while basic stuff like pausing the video by pressing the middle mouse button on the main window you can't do.

 

The only thing I like about VLC is that I can play ISO's without having to mess with virtual drives and it also can play compressed files (RAR).

 

"basic stuff like pausing the video by pressing the middle mouse button on the main window"

 

what? I've never heard of that, ever. is it so hard to press your space bar?

 

Because it's more convenient, even YouTube has that feature

no it doesn't. you can pause it by clicking the left mouse button, not the middle one. clicking the middle mouse button does nothing.

Hmmm, can't actually get Bluray support to work on my player - Installed the libaac thing and put the keys file in the location specified but nope - no worky. Back to [ugh] Corel WinDVD for any HD fun ....

  On 2/19/2012 at 5:16 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 3:33 PM, KY said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 8:16 AM, azatoth said:

Simply the best media player ever.

yes.

 

While Perian actually opens up a lot of capabilities for Quicktime (and admittedly, being able to quickly edit and re-save/compress videos in some versions of QT is handy as shit), VLC is still a definite go-to.

Yeah there are still times when VLC is the definite go to - like I'm re-watching cowboy bebop, and the fansub i have are ogm files in 4:3 aspect ratio. QT is like WTF? and VLC is "how may i service you master?"

(also QT and subtitles can bite me)

fucking lol, also true. being able to manually load subtitle files, play streaming video/audio URLs (although I don't know actually know if i've personally had luck with that one) etc. VLC.

wish they would bring back VLC for iOS, that shit works great.

  On 2/20/2012 at 2:21 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/20/2012 at 11:21 AM, vasio said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 9:14 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 8:45 PM, vasio said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 8:34 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/19/2012 at 6:07 PM, vasio said:

VLC would be the best if it wasn't for the retarded interface, which is so typical to these open-source programs like Gimp and even FF which is only usable after you install an assload of extensions which make it even slower than it already is.

 

you know you can customise the interface directly from within VLC, right? without the need for any extenstions at all?

 

oh what's that? yes, you are talking out of your arse.

 

I know and I have done that but my issue is more about the menus, preferences and some of the customization which on some things goes beyond necessary, while basic stuff like pausing the video by pressing the middle mouse button on the main window you can't do.

 

The only thing I like about VLC is that I can play ISO's without having to mess with virtual drives and it also can play compressed files (RAR).

 

"basic stuff like pausing the video by pressing the middle mouse button on the main window"

 

what? I've never heard of that, ever. is it so hard to press your space bar?

 

Because it's more convenient, even YouTube has that feature

 

no it doesn't. you can pause it by clicking the left mouse button, not the middle one. clicking the middle mouse button does nothing.

Just ignore the middle mouse button... the feature I was talking was the Play/Pause and not the ability to pause by just pressing a mouse button. Pressing on the screen to pause it is much more convenient than looking for the small Pause button or the spacebar imo.

  On 2/20/2012 at 11:34 AM, Babar said:

And to echo what vasio said, people have the right to prefer a solution rather than another one. If you go to a company to install a new information treatment system, you'd better take into account their preferences and ways of working. Actually many companies have sunk because information system engineers haven't taken into accounts or failed to fit their needs.

And companies have no requirement to provide it. Also vasio is clearly talking out of his ass if the whole "middle-click to pause on youtube" is anything to go by.

Many companies have sunk because of feature creep leading to bloat.

Also, who the hell is lying in bed to watch a movie on their computer? Unless you have a big ass desktop screen - in which case I imagine you have a wireless keyboard because you do lots of computing from bed - and then you have the space bar right there anyways.

Also not to get way off topic - but "right" in the usage surely cheapens the word.

Where did I ever said that?

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Also, who the hell is lying in bed to watch a movie on their computer?

People who have an HTPC probably do that.

VLC clearly isn't aimed at the HTPC demographic, to be fair.

yeah VLC is not for the HTPC.

also: if you have an HTPC, don't you usually have a remote? Boxee for example, has either an app you can use to turn your iPhone (presumably android phone as well) into a remote, or you can purchase a d-link remote for the set-top.

also by the way guys we're in real first-world problem zone here.