Products · Broad category
Open source media players
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 3 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Open source media players, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Open source media players have a far worse user experience than Spotify2025-02-12
- Controls don't reappear after exiting fullscreen on iPad2010-06-02
- Clicking play shows only a poster image and video never starts with ClickToFlash2010-05-04
- Thumbnail auto-scrolls on hover, moving the wanted thumbnail away from the cursor before clicking2010-05-04