I HATE XBOX AND VLC!!!!
I've never used VLC before in my life. I've always used DVDplayer. DVDplayer is cool. It does everything I need it to.
Alex took my laptop to take notes in class. Sometime afterward, I decided to watch a movie. I went to our living room and took out saintcerulean's Xbox, knowing it had the capability to play DVDs. I put a disc in, and it told me I had t plug in a DVD playback adapter into a controller port to be able to play my DVD. This was news to me, seeing as my now defunct PS2 never said such heinous things to me EVER. Luckily for me, there just so happened to be one of those little thingamabobers lying around, so I stuck it in. My DVD began to play. I picked up the controller, waited for the menu to pop up, and hit A. Nothing happened. I hit B. Again, nothing happened. I hit all the little colored buttons. Nothing happened. I hit the Start button. I hit the Back Button. I mashed the directional pad. I pushed down on the analog sticks and I squeezed the triggers. Nothing. Apparently, I need a specially manufactured Microsoft remote control for the Xbox in order to manipulate the DVD menu. Had there been a hammer within my reach, I would have had a difficult time explaining to lauren why her xbox resembled a metal pancake. This is sheer stupidity. A PS2 takes a DVD and plays it, then lets you use the controllor you got to do everything. Thank you, Microsoft, for never allowing me to escape your bullshit.
So I took my DVD to zindaras's computer, figuring sladduch's beautiful G5 would be password protected. I stick in the DVD. A little dialog box pops up asking me which program I would like to use. Not wanting any hassles, I chose Windows Media Player, figuring it would at least be more intuitive than VLC. Then Windows proceeded to inform me that it needed a DVD ENCODER to play my movie. WTF?!?!?! How can the encoder not come bundled with the media player? What kind of asscockery is that?? Furious, I ejected and re-inserted the DVD, this time selecting VLC. To my temporary relief, the move began to play, and I could navigate the menus. Whoopee!
And then VLC decided to rape my cockhole.
I wanted to "rewind" or scan backwards. I hit Ctrl+Arrow. Nothing happened. I paused the movie and looked at the toolbar. There was a pause/play, stop, next chapter, previous chapter, and two buttons that looked very much like fast forward and scan backward. Except that's not what they did. The one that pointed to the left meant "play slower" and the one that pointed to the right meant "play faster". I scoured through the menus and failed to find anything resembling a function so basic it dates back to the days zoetropes were invented.
Frustrated, I decided to use the slider, thinking I'd be able to slide back and forth until I found the right spot. Well, I could slide it, but I couldt actually see where I was sliding to. The image would remind static until I let go. By now I was getting absolutely enraged. I started to click on spots on the slider that I figured were good approximations of where I wanted to be. Excpet VLC decided to ignore where I was clicking and leap miles ahead of my mouse arrow for no apparent reason other than to make me yell various sorts of improvised obscenities.
As of right now, I have to be able to watch the movie in peace. This is why I hate PCs. The software that comes with the computer is useless, and the "best" alternative out there is a half-assed, counter-intuitive, and backwards hunk of puked code.
I will gladly wait for my own computer to return. It never gives me any shenanigans for things that should be FUCKING EASY.