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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: 2) by corey on Monday February 15 2021, @10:39PM (1 child)

    by corey (2202) on Monday February 15 2021, @10:39PM (#1113330)

    I switched to MPV a few years ago as I found VLC to be bloated and take a while to load up. Plus the update nags.

    MPV is available for various platforms and just plays everything. The best part is there is no UI, well there is one that appears when you move the mouse but normally you use keyboard shortcuts. Space for pause/play and left/right arrows for skip. You can load it up and drag files onto the window to play them. It’s super fast and light on memory usage.

    https://mpv.io/ [mpv.io]

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  • (Score: 2) by corey on Tuesday February 16 2021, @12:17AM

    by corey (2202) on Tuesday February 16 2021, @12:17AM (#1113352)

    While I’m at it, I also use muPDF for home and work. Fast as hell, light, keyboard driven only. And like Vim, to search you press / then start typing. Then press n for next instance, etc. Also ignores time limited DRM code in the PDFs. Oh and you can invert the display with a single key. Good for eyes!