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

[cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de]

Are you on linux and are describing this issue where VLC cannot be reopened after exiting without logging out and logging back in?

[hk65@sopuli.xyz]

They make you pay for some codecs, it might have been that.

[agent641@lemmy.world]

That logo paid for some kids house.

[madcaesar@lemmy.world]

So serious question, why not take the money, become ultra rich, then immediately start a nonprofit to recreate VLC Origin

He gets to be rightfully rich, and he funds and protects a free project.

[encryptkeeper@lemmy.world]

Windows. And nah it’s more like while playing any given video file there will be moments where it looks as if the video is corrupted or something. Strange video artifacts that affect the entire viewport. The issue isn’t actually in the file, as the spots are random upon playback. These were all h.264 mkv files I had trouble with. Moving those files over to an iPhone and playing them with infuse worked flawlessly.

[honytawk@lemmy.zip]

I've had corrupted files play in VLC.

After a while it crashed VLC because of the corruption, but reopening the file and skipping pas the corruption worked, lol.

[tin@lemmy.world]

Oh, I didn't know audacity would do it. Well I know how I'm wasting time at work the rest of this week...

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

It was and fuck that if they can't even include the most basic ones

[shunkw@lemmy.world]

Because people would immediately call him a sell out. And because it then would be the property of whatever company, and he could be tied legally from recreating it.

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.world]

Looks like your right, included by default:

MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, VC-1, Windows Media Video (WMV), DV, VP8, Motion JPEG

Then they have add-ons in the store, the HEVC I believe said was a dollar to use on 10 devices with that account. that's terrible

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

Everything is a .wav, you just lack the frequency hearing range.

Back when /dev/dsp existed, you could pipe any data to it, and it'd preat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like... well, like they're supposed to, i guess.

[flying_sheep@lemmy.ml]

It's licensing bullshit. They refuse to pay the codec license mafia (idk how the organization is called)

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

Don't care. They have trillions of dollars. They can figure something out.

[sabata11792@ani.social]

I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7...

[portuga@lemmy.world]

Yeah me too for the simplicity. THe “new” one is shit

[portuga@lemmy.world]

First time I hear of someone having problems opening whatever format in vlc. I mean if there’s a program that reads each an everyone of them it’s VLC

[lookbehindyounowandthen@lemmy.world]

Has it finally finished buffering enough for you to hear that chord?

[lasherz12@lemmy.world]

Not yet, I had to start over because I clicked a new spot in the video before it loaded, and that is a mortal sin.

[whateley@lemm.ee]

I used to write dark ambient and noise records as a hobby. I got some of my best samples from that method.

[whateley@lemm.ee]

Hold on, I need about 12 minutes to render your video and even then it's going to be at postage stamp sized resolution and sound like someone stuck a brick in a blender.