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

[rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works]

I absolutely love VLC

[shoulderoforion@fedia.io]

Not Media Player, but Windows Movie and TV Player plays video files clearer with better hue and color than any other player paid or open source, and I've tried them all. You can't adjust anything in it, if the subtitles are off you're fucked and gotta go back to VLC, but the look of the default video processing in the WMT app is hands down the best I've ever seen. I'd guess out of all the different types of codecs there are about .5% that aren't compatible with it, but it's my app of choice.

[afc1886vcc@reddthat.com]

The C in VLC stands for Chad

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)

and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.

[rtxn@lemmy.world]

aplay: "Hey kid... wanna listen to the sound of the kernel binary?"

[dustydata@lemmy.world]

Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn't know what software the second icon was supposed to be.

[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.