[ConceptJunkie]

Local video could be a nightmare in 90s. I remember those days. I remember when it was revolutionary that the Microsoft Media Player came out, and you could use one player for several formats, rather than each video format requiring its own (often buggy) player. Getting the right codecs was still a chore, though.

MS Media Player eventually fell behind the curve, but eventually we got VLC and things got great.

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> MS Media Player eventually fell behind the curve, but eventually we got VLC and things got great.

And in-between those we had Media Player Classic together with the Combined Community Codec Pack, and once you had MPC + CCCP installed, you could finally view those glorious aXXo-branded 700MB files found on a random DC++ hub.

[JBiserkov]

I'm still using the Media Player Classic Home Cinema to this day. https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Never liked VLC, but that's just me.

[xnx]

It's insane that clicking on the video in the VLC interface does nothing. In every other app it is play/pause. There's a way to enable it deep in settings (or as a plugin?) but it should be the default.

[JBiserkov]

This.

[odo1242]

VLC has fallen slightly victim to the “developer team tries to rebuild the entire product from scratch and still isn’t done with the rebuild but has stopped maintaining the original for like three years” issue that some software seems to have

[xeonmc]

Ah, the Overwatch 2 development approach.

[brovonov]

That's awesome. I used VLC only because of the nightmare of codecs back in the day, and worked well for me for ages. I now just use mpv with some UI plugins.

[baal80spam]

> Never liked VLC, but that's just me.

Not just you, I never liked VLC as well. MPC-HC forever!

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I did drop MPC in favor of VLC, but with the new UI of VLC, maybe it's time to give MPC a try again. Didn't realize there was forks of it, time to do some rabbit hole diving!