in a recent example, there were 1,000 downloads on Nyaa and no complaints except a year later one VLC guy here.  So no other VLC users out of that 1,000 Nyaa users?  I believe it.  Only that one complaint here so even people here don't use VLC for AV1?  I could believe that too.

VLC works fine here for av1, I just avoid that format because my TV won't play it from a thumbdrive. I do agree that some vlc user with an old version may have complained.

smartest VLC user can't comprehend why it's shit despite being presented with visual proof

Show this visual proof, other than crappy sub encoders.

Visual proof won't happen. It can't happen on a fair basis. They will show you some really filtered screenshot, but who watches screenshots? I watch a show that is in motion and if it has subs I can't really watch the show because I'm reading the subs despite how well they say they can read them. Damn snobs as another anon put it.

Since you seem to act like you are smarter than VLC users show us this visual proof, sucker.

NekoTrix started thus shit storm, I guess he/they can't encode worth a sh*t.

Breaking news: Fools Living Under Rock Stuck Voluntarily Using Outdated, Buggy Software.

Won't Someone Please Think of the Winamp Users?!

Oh hey next time you search for something on Google and can't find what you're looking for blame it on the website you wanted instead of Google because that's exactly what you're doing here. Do you also blame textbooks when you come across words you've never seen before too? Hmm on second thought, given your depth of knowledge displayed here that seems very likely to us. Don't worry, keep reading and you'll learn more and eventually catch up to the rest of us!

You Clearly Don't Know How Media Playback Works

Anyways, this whole discussion is fruitless yammering and opining - the choice of video codec has nothing to do with how the player renders subtitles or plays audio. You were given a resource to learn something new and improve your experience but instead you decided that you would ignore that opportunity and continue to falsely lambast the same people who gave you that. Great job showing us all how ignorant you are - we now know your opinion is worthless.

So What Could Have Happened?

Now, in the interest of transparency, there actually are known issues specifically with muxing AV1 into MKV files with FFmpeg but that doesn't apply here since Breeze uses mkvtoolnix - as do we when we learned that the hard way. Another technical tidbit is that we all use opusenc to encode the audio and it's a tried and true method. You can't mess that up - that's not how encoding works. Then again you claim to know more than us so why don't you share evidence of what went wrong here? Or at least try to think of something? That way, we can improve our methods rather than feel like we wasted time.

Well, If It's Not the Encoder's Fault, Then Whose?

Spoiler: It's yours. Someone commented the other day on one of our releases that the OPUS tracks did not play any audio on their installation of VLC. If you and that person were not using an old version as described in this VLC Ticket then it's very likely that VLC has reinintroduced that bug. Consider reporting that to VLC so that dinosaurs using Windows 2000 everyone would benefit. The video otherwise plays perfectly fine with mpv, Chromium-based browsers, and whatever Microsoft uses for the Movies & TV app. We didn't test VLC because clearly when 3 different cars run with the same gasoline we don't blame the gasoline when the 4th car doesn't run.

Stop asking for proof when you're the one making the claim and have done no due diligence,
-Sav1or

PS: Don't blame CD Projekt Red when you can't run Cyberpunk 2077 with ray-tracing on your GTX 750Ti.