Your old computer is not dead. It just needs VLC!!! Running the current VLC version on a iMac G3 (1998) and on a Pentium III on Windows XP (1999). Live on our booth at IBC, with JBK, you can see and test them. Yes, both machines still work &... yes, the latest VLC still runs on them! No, they are not ready for the e-waste pile.... Because software compatibility is also an environmental feature, and because people don't optimize the software VLC remembers. It has always had a soft spot for old formats, old machines and technologies everybody else declared dead.show more

@IBCShow Let me check. Yes it runs indeed. 😊

@IBCShow Thank you !

@IBCShow We need a parade in honor of the genius who doesn’t bloat the player up to 800Mb 🙇‍♂️

@IBCShow I want that hat, are you selling with autograph?

@IBCShow Yes

@IBCShow Link?!

@IBCShow Hardware decoding always matters. I played a HD video on a Power Mac G5 with VLC. Because of a lack of hardware decoding the CPU activity was 70% and the power draw was so high that the PSU popped after a few minutes.

@IBCShow How much for such a hat?

@IBCShow Yeah thank you @FFmpeg 🤣

@IBCShow @FFmpeg Nope

@IBCShow @FFmpeg VLC doesn’t use libavcodec?

@IBCShow @FFmpeg Not always.

@IBCShow Glad VLC is so widespread - it makes it less likely GPU makers turn video players into monthly subscriptions. But it's too slow compared to MPV and lacks shaders (e.g. geo distort for projection, simple flip, custom sharpen…).

@IBCShow still using @videolan since 2005 ... now on @kubuntu @linuxmint , @mageia_org :) ( ver : 3.0.20 )

@IBCShow The GOAT of video players!

@IBCShow Ok, now do 486 and DOS 😉

@IBCShow Bravo VLC, l'une des seules fiertés française qui nous reste au niveau international.

@IBCShow I've used VLC for as long as I can remember. Great program that plays every video format I can think of.

@IBCShow Can I run it on an sparc ultra station

@IBCShow For those saying the year is wrong on Windows XP: The reason for quoting 1999 instead of 2001 is probably because The development of Windows XP started in 1999. So while it did release 2 years later, I can understand how they at least got 1999.

@IBCShow I like that he wears the traffic cone on his head

@IBCShow VLC is uni

@IBCShow @grok What is VLC good for ?

@IBCShow Is the offline translation for any video is still going on ? Love VLC by the way and thank you 🙏

@IBCShow Great software made by great people!

@IBCShow @videolan can also be utilized by @AiClairvoyance with local AI models 8) - Should @ComfyUI , Pinokio, ImageMagick, @UnrealEngine @unity be next on their compatible/support goals?

@IBCShow 👌💪 Et VLC est open-source et français (sauf erreur) . 😘

@IBCShow Incredible. Man I haven't used a g3 since high school. Good memories. For the few who still use that and other old computers, thanks for continuing to support them.

@IBCShow I've always appreciated VLC. Essential app

@IBCShow nice work

@IBCShow Heroes. Thank you ❤️

@IBCShow Thank you.

@IBCShow He doesn't play videos on the old computers. He just has VLC installed. If he did play videos, they'd be full of lags and would stutter badly.

@IBCShow VLC is the super hero of software 💛

@IBCShow old computer needs mplayer which reason for existence was.. vlc

@IBCShow This guy deserves a lot of respect 🤛

@IBCShow

@IBCShow woa best ever