VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
Reminder that VLC is on F-Droid
and yet the fdroid version was updated last month!
I just checked it’s 23 February 2023. Last year…
Oh Jesus
With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app’s signing key for you and uses it to sign optimized, distribution APKs that are generated from your app bundles
You can use google’s play app signing. It’s not mandatory.
Fdroid is the obvious answer me thinks. Anyway love you guys/gals at videolan still haven’t come across a piece of software that destroys every other in its field in every aspect.
Winrar?
7zip.
I tried it and went back so winrar.
What does 7zip do better?
7z is better than rar and its algorithm is fully open source
Oh shit I did not know that. Switching now, thanks
No, 7z is not better. RAR is more reliable, has repairing and archive lock options and provides builtin recovery record option. It also provides full preservation of UNIX timestamps down to the nanosecond. Discounting archive repair feature is not a good approach.
7z is open source and has 2-5% better compression ratio, but RAR has proved its credibility and reliability over the past couple decades.
Check out PeaZip
Not show annoying popups about licenses?
PeaZip is something you should check out too
Have people actually checked the versions there before making the suggestion?
F-Droid: Version 3.5.4 (13050408) suggested Added on Feb 23, 2023
Google Play: Updated on Aug 27, 2023https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.videolan.vlc/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlcThe problem seems to be squarely with VLC themselves.
Dear VLC, in your download section there is the F-Droid app store option which I consider a good thing. p.s. Why are you still posting on Twitter ??? On your website I see two buttons Facebook and Twitter. Time for a change ?
By the way, archive.is and archive.ph are Tor unfriendly. Another link : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798565
By the way, archive.is and archive.ph are Tor unfriendly.
Not just Tor, they poison DNS queries from Cloudfare and Quad9, basically any DNS that doesn’t give them sufficient location information about the end user.
VLC is still on Twitter? I thought they would be quick to migrate to Mastodon, slightly disappointed.
And thanks OP for linking outside of Twitter.
Mastodon and other federated platforms are still confusing to normies and less ideologically-minded users. Aside from that, unless VLC starts hosting their own instance, it is hard to say if the particular one they decide to use will stick around. They can relocate by taking some extra steps of course. But they would likely care to put that effort into making VLC Player better instead of into social media. For now at least. X has been more or less the same for a long time (even with the past couple of years) for what they use it for. I am sure they would like to be on an open platform over propriety if that were the only difference. And nothing is stopping them from using both at the same time in order to reach as many people as possible.
I wish I was lost in dessert, but it’s better for my wasteline that I’m not.
And good on VLC for standing up against this. This type of thing should absolutely be opt-in by the developer.
TIL that my country has bended over the copyright trolls and blocked Archive.is, need a VPN to view…
But why is fdroid so behind?
I’ve scrolled through the F-Droid repositories in Droidify app and see that VLC does not have their own F-Droid repository ? They could create one, and set up mirrors for it, think of a way to cover the hosting costs, why not ? Making yourself depend on Apple and Google and saying that app stores were a mistake feels wrong.
i love how google is not even trying to hide the fact that they are engaging in obvious extortion
“give us the keys to all your secrets so that we can secretly inject NSA malware, or be setenced to obscurity”
anyway this is what we get when we trust gargantuan multi billion corpos not to royally fuck us over
same thing for linux. their repo’s latest version is 1.16 while their github version is 2.4.
Edit: my version numbers are wrong but you get the idea. The repo’s version is like 20 releases behind
