What's your general experience with VLC?

Support & Help Requests
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Just wondering. It doesn’t make me happy:

  • videos sometimes open at the wrong scale and are not fully displayed on my screen
  • the sound indicator integration is sometimes broken
  • I cannot seem to get rid of the tray icon

Is it just me or do you also have issues with VLC?

Thanks!

2

Overall - reasonable, with one qualification.

If I click on another part of the timeline of the video, it should just go to that point. But, in VLC, doing this can often cause VLC to hang

3

Disabling the tray icon works for me (on 16.04), but I have to restart VLC for this to take effect.

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5

VLC is all I use but it has lots of quirks I live with. I would never say it was stable.

For example…

I setup a hotkey to force-copy an old config file because it still remembers MAXIMIZED when a video closes in FULL-SCREEN. If any VLC developers are reading this:

HEY YOU! FULL SCREEN ISN’T MAXIMIZED!!! :rage:

There… I feel better. Anyone have a better fix? :grinning:

6

Used to be a big fan of it until I went from a ATI to Nvidia card and the display dissapeared. I have since then replaced it by SMPlayer which seems to be equally rich in feature but I am not a big user of videos (Less than 10x a month).

I’ve also rarely had issues with it in windoze environments and still deploy it to my customers whenever needed.

Hope this helps!

7

I prefer Kodi with it’s wide variety of plugins and sharper, higher quality playback. I’ve had troubles off and on playing DVDs, so VLC is my fall-back media player. Overall, it’s been solid and robust, playing anything I throw at it–with the exception of the nightly builds of VLC 3, but that’s not altogether unexpected.

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Thanks for all your feedback!

Anyone can reproduce VLC playing but the sound indicator telling you it's not playing?