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VLC is able to abstract over a ton of extremely complicated codecs by providing some common tools that work for all of them.

I guess if VLC has a feature, you can always expect it to work. That's their design choice. There's nothing "COMPLETELY WRONG" about that.



The most entertaining part of this thread is that VLC is actually in the process of replacing its backend with the mpv-derived libplacebo.

In the end, VLC has admitted defeat


Both use FFMPEG anyway so it's not like VLC's codec abstraction was really something that sets it apart.




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