On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 03:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
VLC can play a lot of stuff, but the player has so, so many bugs in it that I am thinking it is time to give up on VLC.
I can only say I've noticed one bug with VLC: If you have repeat play on and try to play a broken file it'll deadloop with very heavy CPU use, and it's nearly impossible to make it quit.
I nearly always use VLC for playing things, but I often use mpv for those double-click on unknown video files to figure out which is which. As a simple one-at-a-time player, it's reasonably good, but I absolutely hate its on-screen progress bar when you whiz through a file. I can't find any way to disable it. It's big, and usually in the way.
Why do programmers put on screen displays in such stupid places?