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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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

Sabata

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I would imagine whoever bought it would write a clause to say he can't create anything similar in future.

Mr. Zeus

VLC's UI on windows hasn't changed much in over 10 years now. It definitely would benefit from a search function to quickly find certain settings to fine tune your expirience with it. But I sandbox all of my software, so no cache files or data it writes onto the drive I make it write to ever sticks around for very long.

Any time I need to open a link from a friend I copypaste the link into a sandboxed browser that doesn't have access to any of the shit going on in the other sandboxes instead of opening it rawdog into that same sandbox.

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Thank you.

Encrypt-Keeper

Oh it opens them. Reliable playback is something else entirely.

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In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user's machines.

I guess he just didn't want to become attached to junkware being installed on people's machines.

I don't have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?

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Mpc is literally designed to look like the media player from windows 98....just with actual functionality.

VLC doesn't need to be new it needs to be good. How about a nice forward=next in folder backward=back in folder? How about a nice click-anywhere-to-pause. How about being able to move the video player around without grabbing exactly the right piece of chrome? What about sane fucking volume normalization instead of letting you accidentally crank the volume to 200%? These are all things mpc does right.

Given your description I'm assuming Linux. Mpc is one of the things I find impossible to replace on Linux because all of the options are VLC or yet-another-half-baked-mpv-wrapper authored by lickmydragonballz93 on GitHub. On the other hand VLC has the strong half-baked vibes that Linux is known for, so maybe you're used to it.