Yes it does. It makes too simple for non-techical user to make the signal distorted. Distorted signal can damage a speaker, even in low volume. It's irrelevat to blame "the others do it too".
I've seen it happen many times in meetings.
1. Presenter shows a video and volume is low.
2. Presenter adds volume from VLC to 200% and sound signal gets distorted.
3. Sound is awful, no-one can hear anything and people are doing nothing to fix it, because they think that speakers are broken.
Please VLC, fix your player so that it has good sounding limiter on the "output". It's not difficult.
I've seen it happen many times in meetings. 1. Presenter shows a video and volume is low. 2. Presenter adds volume from VLC to 200% and sound signal gets distorted. 3. Sound is awful, no-one can hear anything and people are doing nothing to fix it, because they think that speakers are broken.
Please VLC, fix your player so that it has good sounding limiter on the "output". It's not difficult.