If there is something historical to talk about, it’s how shit Windows was for both not providing basic functionality in a minimally serviceable media player. And worse, how it couldn’t get the basics of OS-ing right in being susceptible to DLL hell and other similar issues.
In other platforms where such inadequacies were never present, VLC never became a big deal, because…VLC was never great in its own right.
VLC was never great in its own right.
If there is something historical to talk about, it’s how shit Windows was for both not providing basic functionality in a minimally serviceable media player. And worse, how it couldn’t get the basics of OS-ing right in being susceptible to DLL hell and other similar issues.
In other platforms where such inadequacies were never present, VLC never became a big deal, because…VLC was never great in its own right.