[bArray]

>Are you seriously suggesting that there are people who believe that VLC needs to focus on anime more than usability?

Either the Anime audience is better at filing bugs and chasing the up, or the developers favoured those tasks for some reason. Perhaps the UI guy is really slow or just missing entirely.

>Where are all these anime fans demanding VLC focus less on usability and more on supporting their anime fetish?

There aren't any. It's clearly not a trade-off on developer time. For an open source project, people work on what interests them the most.

Specifically in regards to "anime fetish" - who actually cares? What difference does it make if it is an Anime crowd, people who like watching 8k raw footage, people who want to watch 3D films or whatever. What does the specific reason for a video format being worked on bring to the table, other than the fact you clearly don't like it?

[DonHopkins]

I don't dislike a video format. I dislike terrible usability, and arrogant cliquish developers who refuse to even acknowledge there is a problem: not just fail to focus on it, but actually make ridiculous flippant insincere arguments that it's not a problem, in their consistent efforts to brush off repeated valid bugs reports that they get frequently from many different users, and steadfastly refuse to do anything about every single time.

And it's not a matter of anime fans being better at filing bugs. As I said, I filed some very detailed bugs, with step-by-step instructions to prove there was a problem, and they were flippantly dismissed and ignored.

At least Apple had the decency to acknowledge the universally held opinion that the QuickTime 4.0 player SUCKED, and they fixed.