Post #2232212
2023-09-18 09:14 UTC
@jk@mastodon.social @gabboman But nothing is free. There is finite time and development capacity. "Just one more feature" is not only the time to build it, but also to test it, and the maintenance to keep it working across time and across video codecs.
And in the time required to build that one feature, you can't build other stuff -- features that might be more important or more aligned with the core purpose of the software.
Choosing to do something is also a choice not to do other things. 1/
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@heinragas@mublog.nl 2023-09-18 09:16
@jk@mastodon.social @gabboman But what about the "jump back X seconds" feature? The core value proposition of VLC is to play all videos on all platforms. So consuming the video is the main use case. Jumping back X seconds is useful in situations like "Oh, I just missed what they were saying in the video because I was pouring tea, can we jump back a tiny bit?" which comes up during normal video watching. But "Can we go back a single frame?" is not a question you have if you're just consuming video. 2/