VLC always had a ton of applications, network device playback, TV, streaming server, files, physical media, music player, effects, recording, AV format conversion, subtitles, plugins and so on.
“Do one thing well” is what gives you software like sendmail, which requires several other programs to be actually useful, all of which have to be configured separately to work together, with wildly different syntax.
Do one thing and do it well. Oh well…
VLC always had a ton of applications, network device playback, TV, streaming server, files, physical media, music player, effects, recording, AV format conversion, subtitles, plugins and so on.
“Do one thing well” is what gives you software like
sendmail
, which requires several other programs to be actually useful, all of which have to be configured separately to work together, with wildly different syntax.And enables modular workflows and flexiblity.