Thread: VLC for Fremantle?
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2009-09-22 , 18:20
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
That rant, from what I can pick out from between the inside jokes and technical jargon, seems to be about bad encoding practices among video pirates. The player isn't to blame for the artifacts created by bad encoding.
It's about the fact that (earlier versions of, pre 0.9) VLC were incapable of showing styled subtitles and the codec support for MPEG-4 codecs like h.264 were horrid. Since a lot of foolish people used VLC instead of farly superior codecs or media players, encoders were forced to use inferior subtitling and older less efficient codecs with worse compression ratio that lead to lower bitrates and quality decrease. VLC is also noterious for laggy playback, pixelating artefacts when skipping frames and blurry postprocessing

I don't know if they have fixed any of this yet, but it seems that they have made some groundbreaking new features like instant pause in the latest 1.0 release, who could have dreamed of that!?

But I'm not touching VLC again anytime soon.

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