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Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions

Posted by msmash on from the nerd-talk dept.

VLC remains one of the most popular applications. First released over 15 years ago, VLC is open-source, and is available across multiple platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, and it's coming to the Xbox One later this year. We thought it would be great to have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, President of VideoLAN non-profit organization (the maker of VLC media player). In addition, he is also a lead developer of VLC.

Leave your questions in the comments section below. Let's get this going.

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  1. How do you keep VLC sustainable? by msmash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would want to know how they keep VLC media player sustainable. As far as I know, there are no ads in the program, and they certainly don't bundle stupid programs with VLC.

  2. Microsoft Office Plugin / DirectX suport by pecosdave · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hate to ask for this because overall I'm anti-Microsoft, but I'm a systems administrator at a company and I can't seem to teach my users much of anything, any time I do they have turnover and it's lost. It would be great if there were some way to make VLC the player that worked with Power Point. For some gawd-aweful reason Microsoft thinks you need an Apple product to playback h.264 video in a Power Point presentation and we don't allow that anymore since it's pwned.

    I just want to thank you for an awesome product. I use it as a baby monitor with an IP cam at home (no MS products there). I use it on my phone to play podcasts in my car, I love the ability to increase playback speed (that's a little "non-sticky" of a setting). I

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  3. Other projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apart from VLC -- and I can't thank you enough for this media player, it has made lives of millions easy -- what other projects you guys at VideoLAN are working on currently?

  4. Acquisition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did any company ever approach you guys for buying VLC?

  5. Any plans for a touch-friendly UI? by swb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use VLC on my laptop for playing movies on planes. It'd be kind of nice to have a touchscreen-friendly UI for those situations. It's kind of a nuisance to remember keybindings or use the touchpad.

  6. UI by DogDude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is the UI so poor and counter-intuitive? Are there any UI specialists working on the project?

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  7. Chromecast Support by Luthair · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I heard a very long time ago there was development effort to support Chromecast, any idea on the time frame before it's released?

  8. Seamless Playing by SemperOSS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you for the my favourite player. Are there any plans for seamless playing in VLC. I have some playlists with continuous tracks and it would be nice to not have the break.

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  9. DLNA/UPnP? by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi, great program! Thank you - longtime user here. Any plans to support streaming to ("fling to") players using DLNA or UPnP?

    Many devices like WDTV, FireStick/Kodi, etc. support this protocol, and I can control them very easily from a media "player" PC. I prefer the PC's user interface over the crummy remote control UI's of the playing device(s).

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