VLC also has a company behind it: https://videolabs.io/

Mount your internal disks to /D:, /E:, /F:, etc.

Yes, but I guess Romanians would prefer being spied on by the CIA rather than by China and its close ally, Russia.

The README does not say which DirectX version they are targeting. The screenshot show “DirectX 0”. Looking at the code, I see a directory called “d3d9”, but those files are mostly empty.

So yeah… nothing to see here. Maybe in 5 or 10 years.