[ffsm8]

You're talking about VLC for video playback, TFA is taking about video editing.

VLC ignores a lot for it's outstanding video playback support, which is great if you want the playback too just work... But that's the player perspective, not the editing/encoding

[LiamPowell]

While VLC is excellent at playing every format under the sun, it's not good at playing all those formats correctly. Off the top of my head:

- Transfer functions are just generally a mess but are close enough that most people don't notice they're wrong. Changing the render engine option will often change how the video looks.

- Some DV profiles cause videos to turn purple or green.

- h.264 left and right crops are both applied as left crops that are summed together which completely breaks many videos. They could just ignore this metadata but from what I've heard their attitude is that a broken implementation is better than no implementation.

[zenmac]

The author did mention to use MPV, which is much much lightweight than VLC. Being using it as default for quite some times now.

[eviks]

what are you talking about? Of course it's only about playback just like the other 2 alternatives

> single best media player out there ... VLC is not recommended.

[ffsm8]

Literally the first sentence

> Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos.

Seriously, you quoted pretty much the only sentence in the whole article that's about plain playback, and even in that bullet point, the following sentence mentions hardcoding subtitles.

[eviks]

Literally don't stop at the first sentence!!!

> It turns out that reading the (f.) manual actually helps a lot!

The non-recommendation of VLC vs mpc/mpv is literally for playback as I quoted! MPC also doesn't do any encoding, yet it's recommended

> the following sentence mentions hardcoding subtitles.

And that sentence starts with "Apart from simply watching the video" to tell you the same thing the previous sentence told you - that comparison where VLC was not receommended was about playback, not editing

[ffsm8]

Yes, I think everyone, including the author of the article will agree that you've quoted the one sentence thats about playback. I agreed on that from the beginning as well. After all, after you've modified a video file, you will want to check if it looks as desired. You want a video player for that, ideally one that doesn't ignore things for improved compatibility.

The point was that the rest of the article wasn't and if you unironically can't tell that, then you should seriously train your reading comprehension.