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VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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Not a fan of that tbh
Dude, they are not starting their own ad supported streaming service. They are merely adding dupport for one more streaming protocol that happens to be used for that. If these services were using RTSP for their streams, they'd already be supported. This is absolutely in line with VLC's swiss army knife-approach.
Otherwise, new GUI sounds good to me. The old one is proven but a bit clunky.
I think there should be local-only players. VLC was one forever. There are tons of streaming service clients out there and I personally don't want VLC to add this feature. But it is just my personal opinion. I never said it's bad
Yes, "VideoLAN Client" doesn't sound like anything which might have network support.