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Open Source Video Player VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-was-wrong-with-the-old-one? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch:

News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC 4.0 will bring a complete user interface overhaul.

"We modified the interface to be a bit more modern," VideoLAN foundation President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told the publication. Kempf had previously shown some version of a new interface about two years ago, but it's unclear at this point how much that one resembles the one the team plans to introduce with VLC 4.0.

While the article doesn't list every change coming, it does outline a couple other possible directions and priorities for VLC.

Read the article for more details.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by lentilla on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:09PM (6 children)

    by lentilla (1770) on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:09PM (#1112308)

    Oh crap, here we go... Hamburgers and hieroglyphics instead of menus and a button clearly marked "Play".

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @04:52PM (#1112326)

    ... in all races and genders.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @11:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @11:40PM (#1112507)

      You just violated VLC Code of Conduct. No video player for you...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @05:07PM (#1112333)

    Yes - and no way to disable, revert or modify it. Perfection.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @06:07PM (#1112362)

    The presentation from 2019 mentions porting the Android UI to the desktop version.

  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Sunday February 14 2021, @11:35AM (1 child)

    by KritonK (465) on Sunday February 14 2021, @11:35AM (#1112733)

    and a button clearly marked "Play"

    We should be so lucky. More likely, the "play" functionality will be hidden in some part of the UI, where most people would never think to look for it, and easily miss, if they do.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday February 15 2021, @03:10PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 15 2021, @03:10PM (#1113156) Journal

      Err, no. The player will determine all by itself if and when to play the content. No need for any user interface for that functionality. ;-)

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.