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

[alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I thought it was mpv first

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.

[shneancy@lemmy.world]

sometimes i forget the "new and improved" version exists, i switched my default to the old media player years ago

[cosmonova@lemmy.world]

Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that's more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

[adarza@lemmy.ca]

wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years--pushing the 'app' shit instead.

on win11, you should find 'windows media player legacy' hiding in 'windows tools'.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

why is that valuable though

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

VLC is so much better than the solution I was using before it. Windows Media Player Classic with the Mega Codec Pack downloaded from a super shady warez website.

[seekpie@lemm.ee]

Because you can listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?

[pivot_root@lemmy.world]

that's more of a Blu-Ray DRM problem

Fixed that for you, and fuck DRM.

[fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I just use the photos app. It does everything I've tried just as well as the movie app, and it actually works. I find it funny that the photo app is better than the video app at playing videos.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

Who are you?

[a_random_idiot@lemmy.world]

I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

VLC is okay..but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

[seekpie@lemm.ee]

I am someone who likes to listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card.

[blackjam_alex@lemmy.world]

From Wikipedia:

The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Chad" when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.

[retrograde@lemmy.world]

If something doesn't open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol

[maltasoron@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah, I remember everyone recommending K-Lite codec pack. But it didn't work for me, so I used the Combined Community Codec Pack.

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

MPV for movies, VLC for anything else.

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

why is it not

[aliasvortex@lemmy.world]

Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

[plainsimplegarak@lemmings.world]

You just unlocked a memory. My grandparents bought us a computer that had ME installed in 2001. It was a nightmare.