I don't necessarily want to see all the dumb memes I've downloaded and video clips I've recorded with my webcam when I'm looking for movies, or vice versa.

This folder-scanning, browser-updating metaphor is highly reminiscent of the 'Movies' interface of the Kodi media player-in theory, it abstracts away the inconvenience of managing folders and files entirely, giving you a single plane of glass within which to view all your content. File system? What file system? There are only files VLC 4.0 instead spawns a new player window, separate from the browsing/control window from which the video was selected. In older versions of VLC, a single window provided both the video content and its controls. Music offers a similar view into the user's Music folder, Discover presents a network browser looking for shares and streams present on the user's LAN, and Discover does not appear to have been fully implemented yet.Īnother major change isn't evident until you open a video.

This is the view associated with the Video view displayed along the new version's top menu bar it also presents Music, Browse, and Discover. The new VLC instead opens to a media-browser interface, showing thumbnails of all videos present in the user's Videos folder. When opening up the 4.0 dev version of VLC, the first change that leaps out is an interface shift from 'file opener' to 'media browser.' In older versions of VLC-from its beginnings in 2001 all the way through the 3.x version being distributed now-it opens to a blank player window, with VLC's iconic traffic cone displayed in the center.

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