You may have seen something like this in or strace/htop output:
Force a re-encoding that sanitizes the B-frames without losing quality. bafxxx videolan top
The orange traffic cone became a symbol of liberation for digital consumers. VLC stripped away the complexity of the underlying code. Whether a file was encoded in DivX, XviD, MKV, or obscure MPEG variants, VLC handled it. By refusing to succumb to the "codec war," VideoLAN democratized media consumption. They ensured that the technical format of a file did not dictate whether a user could enjoy the content. You may have seen something like this in