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Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a "Violation of section 5.10.4 of the Provider agreement." This is a contridiction however. According to Martin Finkel in the linked article, "Unity itself, both the Editor and the runtime (which means your shipped game) is already using LGPL dependencies! Unity is built on libraries such as Lame, libiconv, libwebsockets and websockify.js (at least)." Unity is swiftly coming to it's demise.

Edit: link to Videolan Blog Post: https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some of these comments are wack. "Just stop using Unity" bro some people don't get that choice.

[–] thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyz 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Brb let me completely rewrite all my unity projects and learn unreal in a single day

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right?

until vlc has a MadVR quality equivalent, no. youre objectively having a worse visual renderer.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MadVR? does it work with Valve Index? nothing seems to work with my damn index

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Despite the name, MadVR doesn't have anything to do with virtual reality. It's a no-compromise video renderer that uses custom shaders to play media instead of the GPU's built in codecs, with the goal to display content at the absolute highest quality possible.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

@gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online Unity just gets worse.

[–] markon@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Unity. Their engine sucks anyway.

[–] sanqueue@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why don’t people just use Godot?

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