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An early look at VLC 4.0 - Hello darkness, my old friend
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<blockquote data-quote="Gandalf_The_Grey" data-source="post: 932418" data-attributes="member: 52096"><p> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>(President of VideoLAN here)<br /> Sorry to say, but the article is quite useless, and a bit misleading.<br /> It's talking about a work-in-progress work, which is very far from being finished. None of those big issues are wanted.<br /> Of course, the video being split from the UI is not wanted, and is just that the work is not finished on all the platforms. But this is per platform integration, because of composition APIs.<br /> For example, this is what the player looks like on Windows: [MEDIA=imgur]q71PzJU[/MEDIA] and of course, this is integrated.<br /> As for the rest, everything is optional and will be made optional:<br /> - you can have the menu by default, if you want it, including the File menu,<br /> - you can disable the medialibrary, and have 0 indexation, if you don't like it,<br /> - the player will be possible to look very closely to the 3.0 version,<br /> - the player can be integrated in the main UI, or split,<br /> - the overlay can be above the video, like the imgur above, or the controls can be under the video, like in 3.0.<br /> Seriously, some of those things are even doable today, in the nightly builds. I don't think the Author saw those options.<br /> As to why, there is a media library, it is quite simple: some people use VLC to play a video file, and they will go to the player directly, and not see the medialibrary; or for the other use cases, you launch VLC, and it has indexed your home NAS and so on.<br /> The goal is for the UI to be the less visible, as you can see in the imgur link above. Only visible on mouse over, if need be.</td></tr></table><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275841[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gandalf_The_Grey, post: 932418, member: 52096"] [TABLE] [TR] [TD](President of VideoLAN here) Sorry to say, but the article is quite useless, and a bit misleading. It's talking about a work-in-progress work, which is very far from being finished. None of those big issues are wanted. Of course, the video being split from the UI is not wanted, and is just that the work is not finished on all the platforms. But this is per platform integration, because of composition APIs. For example, this is what the player looks like on Windows: [MEDIA=imgur]q71PzJU[/MEDIA] and of course, this is integrated. As for the rest, everything is optional and will be made optional: - you can have the menu by default, if you want it, including the File menu, - you can disable the medialibrary, and have 0 indexation, if you don't like it, - the player will be possible to look very closely to the 3.0 version, - the player can be integrated in the main UI, or split, - the overlay can be above the video, like the imgur above, or the controls can be under the video, like in 3.0. Seriously, some of those things are even doable today, in the nightly builds. I don't think the Author saw those options. As to why, there is a media library, it is quite simple: some people use VLC to play a video file, and they will go to the player directly, and not see the medialibrary; or for the other use cases, you launch VLC, and it has indexed your home NAS and so on. The goal is for the UI to be the less visible, as you can see in the imgur link above. Only visible on mouse over, if need be.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [URL unfurl="true"]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275841[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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