That's the main reason I went to GOMplayer on Windows years ago. VLC simply didn't do what I wanted it to do (stepping forward/backward, perfect vidcapping, pan & scan, speed adjustments, contrast/brightness/saturation/color controls).

Years ago, I tried installing VLC on my video file servers to do vidcaps/thumbnails via scripts, but it simply wouldn't compile without a full X-window installation to solve dependencies. At one point, there was a console-only version, but it had long since been abandoned and wouldn't compile on a REAL server OS (RHE, Centos) because the developers only saw fit to make it work on Fedora and other non-professional and experimental distros. I eventually figured out how to compile Mplayer in the exact console configuration I wanted on ANY flavor of Linux and never looked back.

Sounds to me like VLC is still lacking.

It's actually 12 in Vatican City, but judging by their track record, it probably doesn't involve any females

Hi, I'm your nephew. Please sign this power of attorney.

The Faraday hats, however...

You know what? The situation is far from perfect but I can live with it, considering that for the vast majority of human history, the two sides of that coin were "government" and "religion".

You forgot to put "music" in quotes.

Since 75% of the malicious attacks on my networks originate in China, that's half a billion people who will continue to be blocked from my retail networks. Years ago, before I started blocking them, Chinese addresses were involved in a substantial percentage of the chargebacks I received. It will be decades before anyone I know would even consider taking them seriously as a source of legitimate customers.

It would help a lot if they could manage to shut down all the illegal (and unpatched) copies of Microsoft's leaky piece-of-shit operating systems that they're running (as botnet nodes, more often than not) and replace them with Linux (they have their own distro from what I understand). Right now, Chinese visitors are about as welcome to US merchants as 10 Somalis in a speedboat are to a cargo ship off the coast of Africa.

For web hosting, there are already a number of (GUI) web front ends available on Windows - cPanel, Helm, etc. For file management, FTP or WinSCP provides drag & drop functionality. I don't know what tools are available for MS databases, but on Linux, phpMyAdmin is a very nice Web-based management application for MySQL.

Actually, this move would have made a lot more sense back around Windows Server 2000, when most people were on 32-bit OSes. Setting an 8meg video address range for basic CLI "crash cart" video or going completely headless instead of allocating 128 megs or more of address space for desktop-grade video from the meager 4-gig range frees up a lot of memory addresses that can be used for file caching, SQL tables, etc.

If you have ANY servers listening on port 22, you need to go back to admin school.

CES is mainly a bunch of useless consumer crap. The high end of that market, plus all the professional gear is at NAB. It's the same megavendors and the display spaces are almost identical for both shows, but NAB has much cooler stuff on display.