libass, asa, and the plans to fix VLC subtitle support...

[lamer_de]

I haven't met a single person that wanted to stream anime regulary, and seeing that neither mpc nor zp support streaming either, I'd say that's a pretty irrelevant feature. It looks to me like you developed some obsessive compulsive disorder about VLC, but I'm pretty sure that VLC simply works for a great amount of people (unless certain people actively exploit bugs in the subtitle rendering engine). And if the summer of code project is successful, that will be fixed. Yes, VLC probably has a lot of bugs that if you want to exploit them, you can, but they have little relevance in real world situations (at least from my experience).

MPlayer could be close if it had a better GUI, but it suffers from the same problem as VLC does: not working with any other Directshow/VfW apps.

According to many posts in the playback forum, mplayer works quite well together with coreavc, a dshow app.


CU,
lamer_de

[TheFluff]

MPC supports reading streams, at least.
And I guess having a completely unusable GUI (and I do mean unusable, you literally can't see about half of all text strings) on systems with somewhat odd locale settings isn't a real-world problem after all.

Also, CoreAVC is a directshow FILTER, not a directshow application. What I meant was "when you have ffdshow installed you can use its decoders and filters in more than just one program".

[fireshark]

The other way around, with locale Japanese, MUI Japanese, and codepage English, it works just fine.
Besides, the primary purpose of VLC isn't to stream things anymore. That's why they renamed it from VideoLan Client to VLC media player.
For me, the interface doesnt have any problems at all. I would rather use VLC rather than WMP, because the interface is *normal*. It's not buggy to me, and there's actually normal Windows controls instead of pretty graphics.

[ArchMageZeratuL]

Originally Posted by fireshark

I would rather use VLC rather than WMP, because the interface is *normal*. It's not buggy to me, and there's actually normal Windows controls instead of pretty graphics.

That is part of the problem. Using a slider control for a seek bar? Are they insane?

[fireshark]

How is using a slider worse than the pretty graphics in WMP?

[ArchMageZeratuL]

Originally Posted by fireshark

How is using a slider worse than the pretty graphics in WMP?

Simple: you cannot seek to any specific position with a click. You need to drag the thumb to the position, instead. This can get enormously annoying if you're looking around for a particular scene.

Also, what's with the lack of a seek bar on fullscreen?