An advantage also shared by mplayer, which is also much more solid. The SMPlayer project provides a better GUI for it, too. I'm not sure what seeking is like in SMPlayer, though.Kristyrat wrote:In all fairness, VLC is pretty sucky, it's only advantage is built-in codecs
Going along with that, the main decoding core in VLC and mplayer is libavcodec itself, thus for most of the stuff that's 'built-in' to those two, pretty much all of it can also be achieved simply by installing ffdshow and configuring it to decode all the same formats. Both players have their splitters built-in, of course, and VLC can read ISO images (which is the functionality I use VLC for the most). The only thing is that both VLC and mplayer, last I checked, still don't render styled subtitles all that well, which means SSA/ASS subtitles look like crap.