videolan/vlc
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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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…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...
comment by mcraiha · 2025-11-08 · in VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 -
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…
comment by rvnx · 2025-01-09 · in VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles -
…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
comment by sureIy · 2024-09-21 · in Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray -
https://github.com/videolan/vlc
comment by aaws11 · 2022-08-18 · in India Bans VLC Media Player -
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…
comment by tjohns · 2021-12-20 · in Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals -
…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 -
VLC uses youtube-dl. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube
comment by MaxBarraclough · 2020-10-26 · in The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement -
…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...
comment by sterwill · 2020-06-03 · in Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests -
…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 -
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 -
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 -
These are the VLC commits adressing the issue: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=subt...
comment by _jomo · 2017-05-24 · in Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users -
…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 -
…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 -
…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