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Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Gemini24601@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 7 points 10 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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

uses custom shaders to play media

WHAT. As a shader script kiddy, holy shit, that just blew my mind.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

@gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online Unity just gets worse.

[–] markon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Unity. Their engine sucks anyway.

[–] sanqueue@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why don’t people just use Godot?

[–] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lack of important features, no asset store, not as mature (more bugs), no native console support, no low-level rendering access, no texture streaming, and on and on.

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[–] rivermonster@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I don't envy you that miserable decision. And I get that you've evaluated everything and personally feel it's worth gambling that they don't fuck you and make it pointless, all that effort, bringing the game to market.

I'm rooting for you here, and I hope everything works out!

I feel just as awful for anyone who has an overwhelming port or even an impossible port. It's just miserable.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Even if they're currently shipping some LGPL components, they may want to prevent new LGPL components from being added if they eventually want to be LGPL-free in the future.

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