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stcredzero on July 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: VLC Media Player 1.0.0 is finally out

If they all have the same backend, why is it that nothing beats mplayer-nogui? Is it so that you can watch video in a screen session? </humor>

Now seriously, what is the application? Isn't that a defect in the GUI?

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