4.0 is the next big version that'll come ... Whenever.
VLC has no big corporate sponsor behind them and are notorious for being thorough but slow - i.e. what they released in the past was top notch but it took them six years to go from 2.0 to 3.0.
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I didn't know they were that slow, but that leave this part of the question unanswered : if they have a fonctionnalities that have been working for 6 years, why don't they put those in VLC3?
Again, maybe it's just because those functionnalities are not that stable yet, I only tried for 20minutes yesterday...
If I'm understanding it correct, 4.0 had some fundamental differences in terms of code structure, i.e. not everything is downward compatible.
For me 4.0 candidate works just fine to be honest :)
That makes sense. Thanks !
As a side note, if VLC 4 doesn't work for you, KDE's Haruna also supports dual subtitles and is actively maintained.
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