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VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2015-02-27 · latest 2025-11-08

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  1. …is incorrect. VLC has even more supported features, if you do not believe me, check the source code https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/a33f33ddb0a9e0d26d779eb...
  2. It can actually send to Google the information on what you are playing: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... and to their own servers: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... should could…
  3. …source projects for consumers then. There is a reason why the VLC repo no longer has an Issues tab: https://github.com/videolan/vlc PRs can’t be blocked and you can already see some junk there: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/pulls
  4. https://github.com/videolan/vlc
    comment by aaws11 · 2022-08-18 · in India Bans VLC Media Player
  5. VLC has built-in support for Blackmagic SDI output cards: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/video_ou... Though a quick search through online forums suggest that module isn't compiled into Ubuntu's version of VLC by…
  6. …this presumably breaks the YouTube terms of service, as presumably does any use of youtube-dl. [0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894425
    comment by MaxBarraclough · 2020-11-01 · in New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
  7. VLC uses youtube-dl. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube
  8. …VLC source code[1] to find the preset frequency bands since I couldn't find them in VLC docs. [1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/777f36c15564b076bf13af6...
  9. …perhaps allow you to have both netflix's subtitles and your own SRT ones at the same time. [0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS#L30 [1] https://github.com/dannvix/NflxMultiSubs/ [2] https://github.com/mikesteele/dual-caption…
    comment by aplaice · 2020-01-13 · in Language Learning with Netflix extension
  10. …lack the little link. These are likely just regular repos. [0]: https://github.com/nss-dev/nss [1]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc
    comment by cipherboy · 2019-11-14 · in GCC 7.5
  11. Only for nix -- for the Mac, it's using native widgets, if I'm not mistaken: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/gui/maco... (Which is pretty damning -- they already had a Qt implementation, but would rather do real native!)
    comment by dilap · 2018-07-19 · in Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
  12. Yessss it is. The gui is written in Qt c++ and all the processing backend is C. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/gui/qt
    comment by remoroid · 2018-07-19 · in Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
  13. These are the VLC commits adressing the issue: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=subt...
  14. …a copy of the public version and that it's "compromised". You could check for yourself if you like: https://github.com/videolan/vlc :)
    comment by remlov · 2017-03-07 · in CIA malware and hacking tools
  15. …The only reason for asking is that I came across the .wxs files on your Github page. [1] :) [1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/extras/package/w...
    comment by arthurfm · 2015-02-28 · in VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
  16. …worked on for a future release, or am I overlooking something? edit: It may be a longer wait... https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS
    comment by ezekieldas · 2015-02-27 · in VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases