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

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

Everything that Microsoft has tried to improve has ultimately gotten worse. I recently installed Windows 2000 in a VM to install a similarly old game and it was kinda jarring how well it just worked and how much it didn't suck compared to a fresh install of Windows 10 or Windows 11. Obviously there were some very dated concepts especially related to networking (it clearly was designed for a world where a lot of people only plug their computer into a phone line for dial-up, or just directly place their desktop on the internet with a public IP, and letting it listen to a DHCP server and connect to an existing network was weirdly obscured)

[lucaswaffywaf@lemmy.world]

VLC is the only android app I've found that still supports tracker MODs, absolutely required for my music listening.

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

I just use Media Player Classic to rip CDs the handful of times a year I get a new CD and just want to quickly rip it without running to a different computer

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

What would this sound like played in aplay?

[shunkw@lemmy.world]

I used to do this with audacity. It's fun to open an image, and apply some audio filters to it, then export it. Makes for some interesting photo fuckery results.

[desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I love gif files

[sorryquick@lemmy.ca]

I don’t know about windows, but on linux if you don’t need and of VLC’s advanced features, MPV is significantly faster, takes nearly half the cpu on my setup for the same quality.

[coaxil@lemm.ee]

You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.

[lasherz12@lemmy.world]

Oh no, real player has plucked a chord in me I've long forgotten about too lol.

[lasherz12@lemmy.world]

Very true, unfortunately if something makes money other companies will line up to copycat even if the real product is licensing they don't have full access to.

[pufferfischerpulver@feddit.org]

Fucking real player

[lodemike@lemmy.today]

If something doesn't open in VLC your OS is probably not set to open that file type in VLC

[killer@lemmy.world]

I think it does it for hvec too

[m137@lemmy.world]

Know*

Seriously?

[danc4498@lemmy.world]

Mah poor fat fingers

[nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca]

It works better because everything else is geared towards maximum monetization to the direct detriment of the user and the UX. Those alternatives suck simply because "working better" on its own is financially worthless to those selling this shit.

[nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca]

sir this is a Wendy's drive thru

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

That's the logo for a multi-billion dollar corporation's built-in media player for their flagship OS? It looks like one of my side projects.

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

Forget React, all my homies use VLC+TS.

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

Had to install VLC last week because the Windows player didn't have the codec to play a video someone sent me from their smartphone. Seems like a pretty common use case to not have figured out..