New v3.0.0 Vetinari VLC Player

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FrgMstr

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There is a new version of VLC media player out in the wild now, but it looks like the current 2.2.6 Umbrella version will not auto-update or give you the suggestion to do so..so you will need to go grab it yourself and force the installation. VLC 3. Vetinari is considered a major update to the software as you might have guessed. You can download it here for Windows. Now to get my hands on a 8K camera! And I just bought two new 4K cameras....dammit.

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Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) - HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD - 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) - Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast
 
VLC is the shit. Plays anything. Even plays streams from my HD HomeRun when they break the HD HR software (which is often).
 
Damn I wish I had one of those cameras back in college, would have made site analysis videos so much better.
 
Gweenz said:
VLC is the shit. Plays anything. Even plays streams from my HD HomeRun when they break the HD HR software (which is often).
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If only it had interpolation like Smooth Video Project.
 
I personally hate VLC, it's buggy, wonky, and unreliable when compared to MPC-HC. It might be the lesser turd when compared to WMP, but it's still a turd.
 
Glad to see very basic bugs that have been around forever finally being fixed. 2.2.6 would open on a different monitor every single time with seemingly no option to fix it and was very frustrating. 3.0 opens on my primary monitor every time like it's supposed to.

Looks like it finally got hardware acceleration also, like every other media player did 10-15 years ago.
 
I actually had a few 4k movies that wouldn't play properly on the VLC i have on my computer, I'm going to update and try them out now. It was actually quite shocking, for the last 10 years or so I've used VLC i've never had a video file that wouldn't play properly the first try.
 
Had quite a few crashes since the update, but then I've been playing with the pitch shift capabilities exclusively for now. When it works though, it works really well (and it's hilarious as well).
:)
 
VLC doesn't cause my video card's clocks to shit themselves. That's the biggest reason I don't use MPC-HC anymore.
 
people dont like vlc as much is because it uses cpu instead of gpu to do lot of work.

but i like vlc because it doesnt make me have to install so many codecs like with mpc
 
They say VLC supports HDR. Picks random HDR test clip from media archive. Opens it in VLC. CRASH.

Yep. That's VLC. Back to MPC-HC and MAD-VR. LOL.
 
I would say VLC plays almost everything. For everything else, there's MPC-HC.
 
Are you fucking serious? They just now added passthrough audio support? So you're telling me that this new "feature" is something that we could have with MPC for 10 years? Is there something that VLC can play that a MPC variant can't? I'm honestly curious. I think I have decoders for everything under the Sun so I don't see how VLC can play more file types. VLC always seemed like a gimmick to me. It gives you little control and few options. Maybe it's good for folks who don't take a few minutes to learn about how playing video works. Like it's something you tell the inlaws to install when you're trying to get them up and running over the phone.
 
I went back to the previous version... I download youtube videos with real player, and this new vlc only plays the audio with a black screen for the video. Some videos play lots don't. The last one plays them.
 
Meh, I use Leawo for playing Blu-ray and DVD. Supports 4K HDR. I've yet to run into any playback issues with it.
 
DejaWiz said:
Meh, I use Leawo for playing Blu-ray and DVD. Supports 4K HDR. I've yet to run into any playback issues with it.
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I've used the free version of that, but I've had it lock up on me more than once. For free, it's a great player, but if you've got ANY DVD or only play unencrypted disks, I'd use something else.
 
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