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

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

It is a good idea. Imagine you are completely new to Ubuntu and want to install chromium. You’re gonna search on Google how to do that and you will probably find an old article telling you to use APT. If ‘sudo apt install chromium’ did not work it would be very frustrating.

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.