VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming

https://programming.dev/post/11362329

VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming - programming.dev

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 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
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