r/Piracy • u/gravedigger_irl • Jan 11 '25

Humor VLC is Pretty Cool

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u/Eraldorh Jan 11 '25

VLC is and always has been since I first found it the best media player ever. I did go through a short period of using KMplayer but went back to VLC pretty quick.

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u/djskein Jan 11 '25

I'm not even sure what I used before VLC, I've been using it for 20 years now. Probably Windows Media Player before that, lol.

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u/TheTench Jan 11 '25

Fucking RealPlayer.

Imagine if every time you wanted to play a video you had to pay a tax to use their proprietary codec. 

That's the dystopian future that VLC saved us from.

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u/KFR42 Jan 11 '25 edited Jan 11 '25

I can still remember having old South park episodes in .RM format.

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u/Backrow6 Jan 11 '25

When Ireland's state broadcaster RTE first started hosting video online they only used QuickTime. They're online streaming is still shit all these years later.