Recently I acquired a Sanyo Xacti FH1 camcorder and I am having fun with it. But VLC media player is having a hard time playing back the Mpeg-4/ AVC H.264 files 1920 x 1080 @ 60 FPS. It seems that it is lagging behind on play back. Apparently Windows Media player has no problems with that, but it is not friendly. So I am just waiting for VLC team to update their player. Until then I just have to put up with windows media player.
VLC should include diverse icons for all the file-types, and shouldn’t associate the single “Cone” icon for all the media file-types. I need all my icons to point and differentiate among the file types. I can’t have all looking the same, that is nonsense. Moreover VLC should install without having the icon association checked as default. That is why I don’t really like installers because they install all their crap in your system. After that we the users and admins have to de-crapify the computer after one installer went to town on it.
There are many free and non-free tools out-here that install additional nonsense, and slow down the systems. But so far I am suggesting to the VLC team to take action and make these changes, because it will be beneficial to them. The best media player that I ever used is that Mplayer 6.4 the remade version that is just an executable. You download and run the exe and that is it. No file association nonsense, and other crappy things. That is the cleanest app I ever used, and it seems to work quite good. It just needs some codec updates and it should be taking over the world. Microsoft did a smart thing in Win 7, they made windows media player to behave like 6.4 when one executes a media file. That was really smart on them, Kudos!
I agree, it’s funny I came to your site for that HP 1020 fix and keep finding interesting things to read. I too had issues with the VLC media player with mpeg 4 files. I never stopped to think that wmp would actually play something