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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   
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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• Re:hamburgers and hieroglyphics Re:hamburgers and hieroglyphics (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.

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

  by maxwell demon (1608) 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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