VLC 4.0 Media Player Eyeing New User Interface, Better Wayland Support & VR/3D

[Chewi]

I didn't attend the VLC talk as I had others to go to but I did talk to a couple of the guys at the VLC stand and they were really nice. I asked about missing forced subtitles when playing Blu-rays, which I think is actually a libbluray problem. I didn't expect them to be interested but they were surprised that it didn't work for me and urged me to file a bug if it really is still an issue. It was mostly an issue with Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad but I only rent discs so I'll have to wait for something else to test again.

[Britoid]

GNOME interface? But it will still rely on Qt: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/query?...ilestone=4.0.0

"● Gnome and KDE adpatations"

I presume they'll use QT with CSDs.

[Vistaus]

Wow, I'm really excited for the GNOME interface! Are there any mockups yet, or is it just in the planning stage?

GNOME interface? But it will still rely on Qt: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/query?...ilestone=4.0.0

[Vistaus]

Nice UI overhaul. Personally, I really like the UI that's inside the UWP version. This resembles that very much. (I know, that on Phoronix this statement is probably going to irreversibly add a negative connotation to the new UI, but to quote a classic: it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.)

I like the looks of that UWP version, but I don't see the resemblance between that version and the new 4.0 interface.

[Vistaus]

Nice. Wonder how it will compare to GNOME MPV.

You mean Celluloid?

[TheLexMachine]

It would be great if they finally remove the WMV bug in VLC (Linux) that has plagued it for years. That's the only reason why I use mpv, as it handles WMV perfectly.

[Britoid]

Wow, I'm really excited for the GNOME interface! Are there any mockups yet, or is it just in the planning stage?

just planning afaik

[skeevy420]

That's actually a nice looking UI. I plan on actually giving VLC another go once it's out.

It's just hard to find something good enough to replace SMPlayer.

[sturmen]

Looks great! Very much looking forward to this, especially the XR support.

[schmidtbag]

From what I can tell so far, I like it. I never really had a problem with the old interface, but this new one looks nice. I'm sure it'll play better with Wayland than the existing one, so I look forward to it.

I'd have really liked VLC to support HMDs much sooner. Linux is in desperate need of a good native VR video player.