this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
342 points (96.0% liked)

Memes

45886 readers
1706 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie

Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Uninstall that shit and use VLC

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've had good experience using mkvtoolnix to mux video into an mkv with subtitles included. Not sure if mkv support is widespread, but as janky as the TV was with other formats, mkv worked great every time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

this is the correct answer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

MPC-HC also a very good choice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Installing MPC-HC during K-Lite Code pack as my primary media player has taken place of VLC for me this last year. I have been using VLC as music player only with some Winamp-like no-viewport UI lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

VLC could play a polaroid image of the Voyager records.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

VLC works most of the time. That said some videos VLC can't seem to decode correctly - I never get VLC complaining about unsupported file formats, but I do get weird artifacts and glitched rendering when I try to play certain ones.

It's then that I usually try MPV or MPlayer. One of those will usually play the video correctly.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What troglodyte doesn't use VLC nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It's bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don't use that then it's good

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven't had to use VLC since like 2009

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Exactly, but better use jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

mpv is more effective. Worse user interface though

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

mpv my beloved

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

VLC to the rescue!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I've only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i actually accidentally made all exe files open in Windows Media Center on a family pc as a kid.
basically the system had to be reinstalled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Mp4 and mkv are container formats. Your comment is somewhat equivalent to "where are you guys getting text files that can't be displayed, I've only ever seen zip files".

The codec in the container is what needs to be played, and can fail to render correctly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.

VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

VLC: I'm here to help.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sounds a bit small for a movie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Average Windows user.

BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is "2.5 GiB".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I spent $20 on this video player but it doesn't support my format! Does anyone know if the $50 pro version works? /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

When user says "Linux is too complicated"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, its called vlc. You can download it only if you pay 50$ in "Donate" section

-s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The FOSS to the rescue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have probably triggered all the Windows users.

They hated him, because he was telling the truth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Console medianfo your.file please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Am I too 1Gb/s fiber connected to understand that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No big deal, just download the codices.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I honestly can't remember the last time I couldn't open a video file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›