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Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.
- Steve ( @Steve@startrek.website ) 61•4 months ago
Uninstall that shit and use VLC
- Octopus1348 ( @Octopus1348@lemy.lol ) 14•4 months ago
And if you want to play on a TV that doesn’t support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.
- KubeRoot ( @kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•4 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.
- Magnetar ( @Magnetar@feddit.de ) 2•4 months ago
VLC could play a polaroid image of the Voyager records.
- Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English1•4 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.
- Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 57•4 months ago
What troglodyte doesn’t use VLC nowadays?
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 29•4 months ago
mpv enjoyers
- Dumbkid ( @Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•4 months ago
Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?
- Album ( @Album@lemmy.ca ) 5•4 months ago
It’s bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don’t use that then it’s good
- sizing743 ( @sizing743@lemmy.ml ) 7•4 months ago
People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven’t had to use VLC since like 2009
- Samsy ( @Samsy@lemmy.ml ) 7•4 months ago
Exactly, but better use jellyfin.
- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) 2•4 months ago
mpv is more effective. Worse user interface though
- MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 2•4 months ago
not-troglodites, vlc does weird stuff.
- haroldstork ( @haroldstork@lemm.ee ) English31•4 months ago
mpv my beloved
- Lissa ( @liss_up@beehaw.org ) 21•4 months ago
VLC to the rescue!
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 14•4 months ago
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
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English40•4 months ago
It’s an “.avi.exe”.
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 11•4 months ago
yeah idk if vlc does .exe
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English11•4 months ago
Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files
- milkytoast ( @milkytoast@kbin.social ) 3•4 months ago
I’m sure there’s a way
- ReakDuck ( @ReakDuck@lemmy.ml ) 4•4 months ago
Hold my beer
- voxel ( @vox@sopuli.xyz ) 3•4 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.
- Turun ( @Turun@feddit.de ) 4•4 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.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 12•4 months ago
me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc
- Andrew ( @Andrew15_5@mander.xyz ) 10•4 months ago
Average Windows user.
BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is “2.5 GiB”.
- Thann ( @Thann@lemmy.ml ) English11•4 months ago
I spent $20 on this video player but it doesn’t support my format! Does anyone know if the $50 pro version works? /s
- littletranspunk ( @littletranspunk@lemmus.org ) English5•4 months ago
When user says “Linux is too complicated”
- Andrew ( @Andrew15_5@mander.xyz ) 3•4 months ago
The FOSS to the rescue.
- mexicancartel ( @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•4 months ago
Yeah, its called vlc. You can download it only if you pay 50$ in “Donate” section
-s
- Andrew ( @Andrew15_5@mander.xyz ) 1•4 months ago
I have probably triggered all the Windows users.
They hated him, because he was telling the truth.
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 8•4 months ago
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
- frippa ( @frippa@lemmy.ml ) 6•4 months ago
VLC, MPV
- Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English6•4 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
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English4•4 months ago
Sounds a bit small for a movie
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months ago
No big deal, just download the codices.
- MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 1•4 months ago
Console
medianfo your.file
please. - Timbo303 ( @Timbo303@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months ago
Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.
- Yo feet stops he🇺🇲 ( @YoShipsWalksHere@lemmy.today ) 0•4 months ago
Why is it a big deal? 2.5Gb takes like 20-30 seconds to download
- Kevin ( @technohacker@programming.dev ) English1•4 months ago
Bold of you to assume internet access is great everywhere
- ExperimentalGuy ( @ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev ) 0•4 months ago
I forget that some people have crazy fast internet. Mine downloads 2.5gb in like 20 minutes.
- MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 0•4 months ago
Until not that long ago, my average speed was less than 1 Mbps because of insufficient infrastructure in the area.
- Faresh ( @Faresh@lemmy.ml ) English0•4 months ago
2.5 GB in 30 seconds is 83 MB/s.
- PraiseTheSoup ( @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ) 1•4 months ago
Or about 660 Mb/s, which is how we typically see download speeds written.