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by kalleboo 224 days ago
It's crazy how even today, VLC still can't scrub in an h264 video and even skipping around takes seconds for it to catch up while QuickTime Player (AVFoundation) can scrub around in realtime.

Early QuickTime was a miracle playing video on 25 MHz Motorola CPUs.
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darkwater 224 days ago
> It's crazy how even today, VLC still can't scrub in an h264 video and even skipping around takes seconds for it to catch up while QuickTime Player (AVFoundation) can scrub around in realtime.

I'm completely ignorant on this topic but couldn't this be related to patents?

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morshu9001 224 days ago
QT is so much faster than anything else. I'll only use VLC if the format is weird or if I want some feature like playlists.
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