What a good dude

Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It's an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you're really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don't care.

I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it's so performant you can easily customize it.

But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.

I paid $ as a donation for VLC. For the decades of use I’ve gotten out of it I felt I had to. Same for a couple other useful apps that have been free for a long time or very useful. I wasn’t able to afford much in years past, but now I can chip in. Hope this helps these devs keep the stuff free, nothing much worse than seeing a beloved FOSS close doors on users and demand fees.

Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.

Seriously the best player. I've installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.

lol and people think Andrew "no chin" Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)

I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.

WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!

vlc it really whips the llamas ass

Remember to donate to open-source projects!

😇 He's the opposite of Spez! 😈

VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.

Protect this Man at any cost.

This post reminded me to support the project.

Donated 15$.

Its GPL anyways. If he ever does accept, it would be sad but not a catastrophe.

Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.

it's been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.

Les vrais héros ne portent pas de cape.

I imagine he always wears this hat in public.

Thanks Jean-Baptiste!! You and VLC are Awesome!!

And a converting tool to boot

Thanks Jean!

I don't understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply

I like his hat

The hero we need.

Where does this traffic cone come from? And where do I get that hat??

À true hero. Go strong Jean Baptiste !

Ah, a fellow nerd, I see.

Irl saints do exist!? :-D

Thanks to him

*Jean-Baptiste

I'd take the money but use it to help the homeless and such

Mpc is better

should have taken the money.

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