VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming
VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming
VLC is gearing up to offer new features. Sounds exciting!
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Damn Lemmy users are no different from Reddit. Don't read anything. Take anything you did read out of context. Be sure to rage post your own ignorance so we can all read about it.
You can help by clarifying the article
There are a bunch of free channels on the internet that some TVs can just stream without a dedicated app. These channels are supported by ads like cable/whatever channels, but not locked behind a subscription. VLC is supporting whatever formats they use to allow (or make it easier; IDK) people to watch them if they want.
The other part is that they're working on web assembly to allow sites to use VLC as their embedded video player.
I’m so conflicted about web assembly. I’m a web developer and I think it’s going to be amazing eventually but 20% of me thinks it’s going to be a security nightmare and require a decade of fuck ups to reach its potential.
I'm mostly worried about how much less open this will make the web for simple local hacking. I often add small features to webapps I use by injecting code and hooking into their systems (when it's not an app with open source, where I send a PR instead - and if I can work around issues I do contact the owners with a working fix).
This will be much harder with WebAssembly. Sure, there'll be decompilers in time - but in the time it takes me to change a small piece of behaviour in such cases, I can add multiple features in the current JS environment, even if the code is obfuscated.
I'm more concerned that the web will get even slower and bloated. We are already seeing the first frameworks that ship a webassembly .NET runtime, Python runtime, JVM, ... . I kinda fear that in 10 years when you visit a site you need to download runtime xyz in version abc for the 1000th time. All because some people or companies just can not be bothered to learn any new technology.
require a decade of fuck ups to reach its potential.
That's quicker than people, heck I'm going on my 3rd decade and still not at my potential. Or so I like to tell myself.
Can web elements be sandboxed in any meaningful way?
Arent HTML5 players there for that?
you don't even need a player script; browsers today can play media on their own.
and scripts with added features is a very crowded market.
He shouldn't have to, the point is read before commenting about a clickbait headline. If he has to spell it out that only furthers his point.
Yes, he has no responsibility to explain it. But if he would like to help anyways, he could.
Damn Lemmy users are no different from Reddit
We’re do you think Lemmy got all its users?
Where do you think Lemmy got all its users?
Fixed that for you.
/le reddit larping
tips fedora
forgets to untip fedora
unzips fedora
sudo-es Fedora to mount a cbt device to the unzipped path
Was this comment meant for another thread? I'm confused
Yeah sure it's user fault and not the click bait headline, I'm sure they can describe the whole article in one headline without any confusion, oh and probably half of lemmy user are used to be redditers
You forgot to mention it's no different from Reddit with the horrible titles either.
What are you even talking about? Do you feel better after getting that off your chest?