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		Levitating on Aug 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform medi... VLC is able to abstract over a ton of extremely complicated codecs by providing some common tools that work for all of them. I guess if VLC has a feature, you can always expect it to work. That's their design choice. There's nothing "COMPLETELY WRONG" about that.

spoaceman7777 on Aug 18, 2024 [–]

The most entertaining part of this thread is that VLC is actually in the process of replacing its backend with the mpv-derived libplacebo.

In the end, VLC has admitted defeat

account42 on Aug 19, 2024 | [–]

Both use FFMPEG anyway so it's not like VLC's codec abstraction was really something that sets it apart.

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