Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

[pufferfischerpulver@feddit.org]

TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.

[jamyang@lemmy.world]

And it stutters when playing .ts files.

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I'm having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player...

[greatalbatross@feddit.uk]

It's also partly the patent holders for H.265.

H.264 had a license fee, but it wasn't ridiculous. It was jacked up for 265, to the point that a lot of software houses no longer bundle the 265 decoder license.

It annoys me too: Security cameras often use turnkey H.265 encoding packages rather than more open codecs, which makes dealing with the files using FOSS more of a pita.

[rtxn@lemmy.world]

aplay doesn't bitch about encodings or signatures or checksums or something not looking like a media file. If you do something stupid (like pipe an executable file into it), it won't tell you to go back to the child-safe play pen, it will pass the data to ALSA and do its best to render it as sound.

The Windows mind can't comprehend the importance of the freedom to fuck around.

[ours@lemmy.world]

It's because Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a GOAT and said "non" to fuck-you amounts of money to sell out VLC.

I don't know if I've had the strength to say no to that much money and obviously, that kind of cash has corrupted all but a few bastions of what makes the Internet an awesome place.

Shoutout to Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame and all those supporting the lists it depends on. Some many adblockers sold out (including the original uBlock) but he champions on making the Internet a remarkably better place when used. Dude even refuses donations (says list maintainers deserve it more).

[baku@aussie.zone]

Why are you so angry lol? Most of your post history is just you yelling at random people on the internet. It's weird.

[irelephant@lemm.ee]

Typescript?

[crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz]

Or mpv, the real chad.

[irelephant@lemm.ee]

I cant remember the command now, but there was one on linux which let you play anything, I remember /usr/bin/ls sounded nice.

[jamyang@lemmy.world]

Transport Stream

[mwa@lemm.ee]

For me i tried playing Bad apple in 4K it struggled

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

4k gif? Oh please, be serious.

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

That’s what the meme is praising VLC for

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

VLC bypasses this by being based in a country that doesn’t recognize the software patent

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

No, that's because it's free.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

And couldn't crack/play DVD without them.

[tonytonychopper@mander.xyz]

Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.

[tin@lemmy.world]

I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way.

The Machinal - Disturbance

Listen to The Machinal - Disturbance, a playlist curated by The Machinal on desktop and mobile.

SoundCloud (soundcloud.com)