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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
But it has had networking capabilities for like... ever? RTSP, HTTP, ...
It also supports some funky stuff like raw H.264 over UDP if you use ffmpeg to prepend special packets to the start of the video stream (Ideal for a DIY low latency video streaming solution ). If you decrypt digital OTA tv signals (DVB format), VLC will play the live underlying raw mpeg stream just fine.
Truly a swiss army knife of video playback, especially the underutilized network url file open option
I mean it is right there in the name: Video Lan Client.
My first use of VLC 20yrs ago was to stream video. it is the core of the product.
Idk about that. I don't even care much cuz I don't use VLC at all. Lol I just wanted to send a regular short controversial unpopular opinion comment. I hope it's not considered wrong here
Yes, "VideoLAN Client" doesn't sound like anything which might have network support.
VLC stands for VideoLAN Client, and was originally designed as a player for network streams provided by the VideoLAN server. It also supports local media playback, which has become its most common use. It adding additional streaming functionality is just reinforcing its original purpose.
I don't have anything against that. The dev has the right and adding that feature can make the client more popular
One doesn't have to use the feature and it's not like it's going to be felt, nor noticeably use any resources when not in use.