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mikevm on May 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A new core playlist for VLC 4

I dumped VLC due to the simple reason that when a video is paused, it will stop the computer from going to sleep. The developer thinks this behavior is OK and refused to fix it so I just found a nicer and minimalist player called https://mpv.io/

rom1v on May 22, 2019 [–]

> when a video is paused, it will stop the computer from going to sleep

This seems to be fixed:

- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3724

- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/19463

- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/20092

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