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Vlc media player for windows 10 reviews3/17/2024 But as I said, there's plenty of good reasons you might want to use a store based app. I myself tend to install it myself, but that's partly momentum on my part, on Windows, I just forget the Microsoft Store is there, and don't tend to look for apps there. VLC is a good example of that, since you go to to get it, not vlc.org or it's not like the unwary couldn't run into that kind of thing anyway. Then again, that's not really a problem introduced by being in an app store either, just a different version of the same issue. You have all the problems of any app store of course, fakes and such, so you want to make sure you are getting the one from VideoLAN. Since VideoLAN is publishing it themselves, there shouldn't be any differences. Keep hitting E to move frame by frame in your video. If your video is playing, VLC will pause it and let you move one frame at a time. When the video opens, on your keyboard, press the E key. On the downside, if something goes awry in a store app, and it decides it's not going to update or uninstall or whatever, that can be a bit frustrating- then again, that's always been the case, this just gives you a more singular thing to be mad at, and moves the anger from the app to the store. To use a hotkey to play your video frame by frame, then first, open your video file with VLC. Using a store can help the devs by helping make it so they don't have to worry about creating their own update process and can lean on the OS to handle that for them. They help reduce the system clutter, by centralizing the management and updating of installed apps. This experience is the main reason you'd want install from the store, but there are other benefits, they are just less obvious. The difference is how involved you have to be in the process of downloading and installing and updating, and how much effort the developer has to put into having a self updater.īecause of mobile, people more and more expect a mobile type experience- apps install from a store, and are updated by the store/OS. Is there any difference between these two methods, and which is better? Given the question being asked, I'd say it might actually be more beneficial for the OP to go through the store rather than direct from VideoLAN. More and more, I'd argue getting an official version from a store makes more sense for the non-technical user for a number of reasons. This is an advantage to the technically comfortable user for sure, but it's less so to your average non-techie type. If the companies that provide the store were doing a good job, it should be less of a problem to at least some degree.Īdditionally, I prefer standalone software than relying on the Microsoft >Store, not least because you can ALWAYS get the latest version from >. And being open source this is always a problem regardless, it's not unique to store apps. You can also use it as a converter to change audio and video file formats. Besides being a media player, VLC offers multiple recording options, including screen and webcam recording. So presumably your regular user would do the same thing they'd do in a store- they'd type "VLC" into search, and the end result would be the same- they'd get the thing they are actually looking for. VLC Media Player is an open-source project allowing developers to develop the platform further in programming languages like C, C++, and Objective-C. org or anything that says "VLC" in it to get it. Looking outside the store isn't automatically a solution to that, VLC itself has this problem, since you go to not vlc.com or. VideoLAN really should at least update the UWP description to mention it's unmaintained status.Īlso, many folks try to 're-introduce' programs themselves VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming. The main hit that comes up on searching the store is regular VLC, not the discontinued UWP version. I was wondering why the picture quality seemed especially bad on some files, so I dug around and found disabling the post-processing filter actually improved things.Yes, I am aware that you can get VLC via the Microsoft Store via the UWP, but why bother? If "post processing" is activated, it seems to cancel out deinterlacing. I found how to fix it, though, by going into the "vlcrc" settings file and changing it there. For some reason, the playback speed setting default became 0.90x instead of 1.00x. Other than the above, all the other handy features are cool. It time-stretches the audio properly when playing faster (PotPlayer causes a kind of reverb effect MPC-HC still has no time-stretch at all). It can properly play all formats faster when want to (MPC-HC can't play. It supports playing Windows Media Center recordings (.wtv) properly, including those flagged as "protected" (PotPlayer plays my digital tuner recordings with the audio out of sync MPC-HC can't play "protected" recordings). Compared to my old favorite MPC-HC, and the new PotPlayer, I now prefer good ol' VLC because:
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