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I get the sense that VLC doesn’t really care if something is a valid video file, it’s just gonna start playing and see what happens.
You can shove French fries into a CD drive and vlc will still make it a video
Extract the eyes of murder victims and VLC will show their final moments.
Wild wild west style?
Rallys/Checkers fries? Or Burger King? Because there is a HUGE difference!
Or Wendys?
Or McDonalds?
WHOSE FRIES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT??? I WANT TO WATCH VIDEOS ON FRENCH FRIES!!!
Taco Bell
Blu-rays.
Don’t ‘but’ me. I literally spent the weekend getting aggravated at VLC chucking errors at me no matter how many extensions or libraries or whathaveyou I threw at it to make blu-rays work. And this isn’t even the first time.
Blu-rays are purposely made to be combersome to read and use without explicit permission from the Blu-Ray commission.
Blu-rays aren’t DVDs, each release has a unique encryption on it that you either break, or use a program to scan and break for you with public listings of known keys.
VLC would need to ask the Blu-Ray Group to open up their software on how encoding and decoding works, and they never will.
Sony gets a cut for every single Blu-ray, it’s why you need to install the app for Xbox when the gaming console can naturally play Blu-ray discs for games. Microsoft doesn’t want to fork over more money to it’s main competitor, and part of why they backed HD DVD.
Is it VLCs fault? Not really. If they had a lot of money and man hours they could maybe work something out. But DVDs are child’s play to figure out compared to Blu-Rays. That’s on purpose.
mpv is better
Both are good tools for the job. I use mpv but VLC just works for 99% of use cases. mpv is best for working with terminals, vlc is best for GUI and is consistently easy on any operating system, even android.
