I should donate to this guy...

You should donate to vlc project so the team behind it could keep the good work.

I literally just donated to videolan for the first time in my life because I realized, my God I've been using this software for over a decade and it has been perfect and free.

If we all donated even a dollar it would still be a serious amount.

They should do a “pay what you want” as donations is too passive. Encouraging people to pay, but not forcing is the way to go.

Don't forget, they get free advertising in about every construction zone.

serious question, how does he support himself and his team to keep this running?

You gonna buy WinRAR while you're at it?

You can also donate with crypto! I did with Ethereum

You can even summon him on Reddit

Good morning!

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I wish somebody summoned me :'(

How did you do this? Is this jeans alt? Hahaha. Either way amazing

Haha, I love reddit. It's a post about the dude and the dude shows up! Crazy.

Back in the day when I sailed the high seas, VLC was a must have.

Pro-tip: VLC can play back YouTube links. I love this because I watch a lot of older video and many times the aspect ratio is all messed up. When I play in VLC I can manually force the aspect ratio back to the original

Still is, matey!

God I remember the days before I found vlc and you had to download a thousand codecs

VLC is one of the first five applications I install on any new computer.

VLC is still kind of a must have

What do you mean "was"?

it's THE video player, piracy or not

there's a continued mpc-hc project still active, too! it's a lot more lightweight and occasionally works better than vlc, so it's nice to have both. i use mpc-hc especially for music.

It was either that or Media player classic, can't remember which was which but the two popular codec packs were k-lite and cccp that came with one of the players.

It’s still a must have.

VLC is still huge in the android streaming app world.

Here in Sweden I'd need to get 20 subs to be able to get a decent library of content. Tons of smaller swedish streaming sites grabbing 1-2 good shows to lure people in.

Once a sailor always a sailor. You don't have to hide my swashbuckling friend.

VLC is about the only decent player always available on odd devices like Android TVs and such, and it does local networking.

You should get back on the boat. It's pretty glorious out there nowadays.

Was about to say this, VLC was a must have during my deployment, if you didn’t have it you were missing out and an already shitty time would’ve been worse for you because you wouldn’t have been able to watch what everyone was watching/talking about at the time.

Yaarrr?

What a legend, VLC is great.

He's an adorable video wizard 😘

Is there a format that VLC can't play. You can throw random files at it and at the very least it will try to play them.

I watch all my .docx files on it.

It does so much and doesn’t feel bloated

You could put a skipping rock in your CD drive and VLC could play it.

You can put a slice of ham into the disc drive and VLC will find a video

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for what it's worth, i couldn't get it to play 4k x265 mkvs at all but other open source players handled it fine, vlc is still great for most people though

VLC plays video files inside RAR files for God’d sake! You don’t have to unpack those 300 RAR files to watch whatever is inside, it’s amazing! Super helpful if you don’t have that much space. VLC unpacks it on the fly!

Recently my friend sent me a video in some obscure video format. Windows gave me no less than three warnings about how it cant read the file or play the video in a usable format.

It won’t play corrupted files, that I know.

I find it has trouble with anything associated with video games, console in particular. The easiest way of demonstrating this is to find a PS2 game that contains videos and doesn't do anything weird to hide its files. Usually the video track will be MPEG-2 and the audio PS ADPCM. As VLC doesn't support the latter, at least last I checked, the video plays without sound.

Y’all would have been some ad watching sonsabitches if that were me!

Ya damn right. "how many zeroes is this..? Cool. Very cool."

Would anything have stopped him from taking the ad money, letting it go for a little while, then creating another ad free video player under a different name?

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Same here. I'd definitely cash out the first time and comfortably live a good upper-middle class life without any financial worry.

Seriously though. I can either keep yall from watching ads or put my kids through college and let my wife retire decades early. Yall gonna watch ads. Lol

Yeah, just sell out. Someone else would fork the project anyway.

More likely y'all would have used Media Player Classic instead.

Me too brother, me too

same lol

Not all hero’s wear capes.

Don’t you mean cape’s ?

You could just say in this case the apostrophe represents the missing letter "e".

Dr. Sung has entered hoverboarded into the chat.

And i still use vlc.

There are dozens who do. Lawyers in the Johnny Depp-misheard trial are using it, so that's about 200 people right there.

I still use vlc and winamp.

6 million other users agree with u, including me

one of the few gods in the internet. Selfless with a huge influence of using our mastertool.

The lads at OBS are also v epic

Tech saint status up there with Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak

**Fun fact **: When you see a French first name written with an hyphen, it signifies a prénom composé. The two first names, combined, compose a new inseparable first name.

Ah, like the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, he was of Haitian descent. And there’s an MLB player called Giancarlo Stanton (IDK his background).

JayBee for close friends

That is fun

All hail

All hail!

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Really? I had no idea. Reaper is by far my favourite DAW.

Wow that's pretty cool, Reaper is a nifty bit of kit.

No that was Justin Frankel. You should edit your comment so you don’t spread false information mate.

If I owned VLC, I would just have marvels hulk as my sponsor..

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Dammit…have an upvote

I can't be the only one that found this humorous

That would be incredible.

Fine you get just one then I'm leaving.

laughed my ass off, distracting a bunch of exam-taking classmates… whoops

That's the guy?! What a lovely human being, such an important tool in college.

no, it was created before his time at his school.

Ads are ruining the internet. Good to know there are people who want to stop it

How to you propose hosting, developers, and content creators get paid? Most people can't work for free.

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Nice guy.

OP is a repost karmafarming bitch

using mostly emotional manipulation and lies to get points.. the worst kind of reposter.

what's fun is like everytime this is reported, he repost misleading information as he Didn't create VLC (like you can see the guy himself explain in your link).

This is

Oh thank god someone else pointed this out.

Hero’s don’t always wear capes. They wear parking cone shaped witch hats

Also he's a Discworld fan. The version names are Discworld characters, the current one is Vetenari.

how are there two highly upvoted comments saying basically this same thing and neither knows that the word is "heroes"

that's interesting since he joined the project in 2006, 10 years after it was created.

We need to write WIZZARD on that cone.

That was VLC 2.1. We're on 3.0, Vetinari.

MPC-BE

Dunno what it is. Downloading anyways. Open source ftw.

It's a very powerful media player with the ability to play most types of media files and pretty solid filtering tools

I think it’s probably the best media player on pretty much any OS?

What rock have you lived under. VLC has been been the standard for literal decades.

You love open source software, but you’ve never heard of VLC? ……huh.

Every new machine I build gets vlc on day 1. You won't regret it.

If you're like me and VLC has saved the day time and again,

He is a better man than me. I can talk a good game, but if I were offered tens of millions I think greed would finally kick in. It would be hard for most of us to turn down something that tempting.

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A hero amongst us. Created the best media player hands down. I salute him.

Thanks, Jean!

Be like Jean-Baptiste. Prioritize values over money.

“You’re a hazard Harry”

This man is my hero

Chad

Fun fact I saw a guy getting butt fucked by a traffic cone today Thanks reddit

You have been randomly selected for an update. Congratulations.

You just need to be not from the USA and suddenly it's not all about money

Years ago I finally got my own computer. It ran Windows XP. I had a few CDs of my favourite musicians. Lo an behold...I couldn't play them on my computer. Windows Media Player wanted me to pay for the ability to play music I had rightfully bought. I discovered VLC and it played everything! And was completely free. I didn't even know who its developers were and didn't notice that VLC had no ads.

When I get a new PC, like I did last week, one of the first programs I always download is VLC. I really appreciate his work!

Been using VLC for decades. Still the best player out there. Wish there were more tech peeps like him and less like the fraudster Bill Gates the fake tech guy. God Bless the free software movement.

Not all heroes wear cones.

The flame of hope has not yet been extinguished, keep on shining you warm, brilliant man.

I tip my cone to you

One of the most elegant, simplest programs. You'll never look back. Thanks, Jean.

I have used VLC on all platforms ever since it came out. I'd be lost without it, and it just keeps getting better. So glad to "meet" the amazing person who created it!

Karma whore

Repost

I love people with integrity :)

Take the money, most now use mpv

I used VLC for 12+ years but its time had come after it started getting more and more buggy and sloppy in recent years. Last year it tried to murder my SSD by producing a logfile of several hundred gigabytes of the same error message on repeat while I wasn't on my PC. That was effectively the last time I used VLC. MPV feels a lot more snappy, less bloated and doesn't have any obvious issues. Only downside from a casual user's perspective would be the lack of any proper gui in the base version (so if you don't use a custom frontend). For me personally, the keybinds are super convenient though.

word for word repost

Professionals have standarts

This guy fucks!

Jean, go get your money.

Did he enjoy the hbo series silicone valley?

All these years I thought the logo was a traffic pylon. Was it a wizard's hat all along?

VLC = best player there ever was

What a hero

Thank you!

Love VLC and have been using it for years.

I'll be honest, I'd watch a few ads if this guy got to be paid big bucks for it. I wouldn't hold it against him one bit. Ads are short and mostly skippable.

What a gigachad

He is actually great, especially after Audacity and Musescore sold out.

Yeah, that can happen and is quite sad.

bossfight

That's very noble, and I can say with absolute certainty that wouldn't be me in that situation.

VLC and Audacity are the best freeware of the last 20 years.

A heroic dude!

What a fucking hero

wow, this guy is defintely a contender for the best person in human history imo. Insane levels respect for him.

I have a profound gratitude and appreciation for those who don’t sell out. Good lad

You have my respect sir

So cool, VLC has always been the Swiss army knife of media players! Cheers to you

Give me liberty or give me dead

Thank you I have been using VLC from when it was first released in 2009 first on Windoze and now Android and Chrome.

I started using it in 2012. When I saw it for the first time, it was installed on a PC that my dad bought second-hand. I thought it was probably crapware. Little did I know.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some apparently wear traffic cone on their heads though.

I would have taken the money, but more power to him.

VLC game changer. I can feel the love put into making this fine player. A credit to you kind sir

Just installed VLC on a laptop the other day, I almost couldn't believe this program is still around.

Pas mal non ? C'est français

the best player I have used so far....

Not all heroes wear capes. Some just wear a traffic cone on their head.

Thanks for the media player that works almost everywhere :) Thanks

You don't even need to install it, just unzip

a tip of the ...hat? to you Sir!

Allthose broken naughty america vdo could be played flawlessy cause this guy! Amazing!

Just saw a man getting his anus shoved by a traffic come. Now this lmao

The "200% volume" feature is pure genius.

this post is literally just a copy of a top post on

Again went through all the comments below.

Thank you, kind sir!

Windows 10: if you want to play this video you have to buy the h.265 codec

Maybe you don't know but vlc is literally universal man. A damn good video player that can play all video formats and working just fine be in widows XP or the latest without taking any load on the pc like that windows 10 crappy player lol.

VLC player is my favorite player.

My only player since it came out

This is what a proper human looks like. People before profits.

What a legend

Damn, salute to this guy.

I don’t think I’d have the strength of Jean if someone came knocking on the door with tens of millions of dollars. What a legend.

A true comrade

Hard to believe there are people who aren't for sale and can't be bought. He wouldn't make a very good politician or supreme court justice.

I'm openly guffawing at comments admitting unfamiliarity with VLC. Part of it may be an age thing I guess. And another part is if you grew up going straight to phones as your digital life then you wouldn't need VLC as much perhaps.

This man is a hero!!

I mean, I would've been fine with a small banner ad. Get your money man.

I remember using this software to convert all the various different audio formats and video formats when things were really confusing. I just couldn’t believe that it was free and worked so flawlessly! Thank you thank you John Baptiste kenpf

.... Why?

If this right here is not a hero, I don't know who is.

We used VLC player a lot back in trade school! Literally couldn't have watched all those training videos without it!

Why would anyone pay tens of millions to put ads on something so beautiful?

Some heros wear cones