VLC as a DVD / Bluray / Movie Player Alternative
Please let more than just one or two people read this before closing it.
Don't be Hitler. Just because you think my ideas don't deserve to live doesn't mean everyone agrees with you.
Imagine you're a user of VLC:
- You press the Play-Pause button on your MCE Remote, and VLC doesn't do shit.
- You dim the lights, snuggle up with your sweetie pie, and open up a can of VLC movie-playing. Maybe you guys fell asleep during the movie. At the end of the movie, VLC drops out of fullscreen: FLASHLIGHT IN THE DARK ROOM TIME! ^_^ FUCK! WHERE'S THE FUCKING REMOTE!?
- You're playing a sequence of videos on a screen at a midnight bowl, a party, or for any reason in which you're not the only person viewing the screen image, and at the end of the video sequence, VLC drops out of fullscreen: OH HEY GUISE, I'M THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND SHIT! ENJOY HOW HALFASSED THIS LOOKS ^_^
The fixes to these things are so easy to do. Enter key maps to Play-Pause by default. If the user switches to fullscreen: Don't fuck with that decision. Keep it in fullscreen. Just pause at the end or switch to the VLC icon with a black background if there's nothing left in the playlist.