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No. Just no. It's easier and more reliable in theory. The fact of the matter is not enuogh time is spent on the windows release to make it stable. If all you watch is standard XviD AVI's with mp3 compression and no subs, you're not going to encounter issues. VLC doesn't even read AVI's with multiple...

what you propose is not streaming, but a technique closer to standard file transfer protocols. Streams by default limit themselves to a max bitrate, e.g. 1mb/sec and tie it in to match the video, so for 1 second of data transfer you get 1 second of content. File transferring allows you to open the b...

For a part he is right, we could do far better, especially in the area of Mac OS X and Windows. The question however is, does it matter ? As developers we have always stated that VLC media player is our project. Our area to learn and have fun with. However, we have far outgrown our initial playgrou...

63 million downloads, not people buddy.

Hello all. I need to start off and stress, i'm not here to troll you. I'm here to inform you that you're simply wasting your time. I've been inundated with VLC's bugs for roughly 5 years as an editor & encoder. It simply doesn't do anything right, failing to do even some of the most basic tasks ...