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

[danc4498@lemmy.world]

You now they’re just being silly, right?

[xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Just because VLC plays a file doesn't mean that the file isn't corrupted.

[wanderer@lemm.ee]

VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.

Wish we could start again with a new internet.

[thatguynamedzeus@feddit.org]

who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

[mellowsnow@lemmy.world]

Got any fun clips to share?

[birch@sh.itjust.works]

Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

If it's not skinnable what's even the point, right? I miss those neat visualizations.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

XBMC is still a thing?

[thatguynamedzeus@feddit.org]

They re-named it "Kodi" but a lot of the stuff in it doesn't work very well anymore

[the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world]

Never knew that one.

[slampisko@lemmy.world]

Media Player Classic enjoyer here

[swab148@lemm.ee]

For some reason it always puts ampersands in the text on the left side, for me anyways. Like, it'll say "Alb&ums" and stuff like that.

[redice25@lemmy.world]

I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files

[poplargrove@lemmy.world]

Share why you use mpv for movies?

[morrowind@lemmy.ml]

Yeah blame some for using a nonfree format lol, literally none wise uses it

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

I, too, would like to know when will you Brazilians stop letting Bolsonaro get away with using Windows Media Player?

[pufferfischerpulver@feddit.org]

TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.

[jamyang@lemmy.world]

And it stutters when playing .ts files.

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I'm having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player...

[greatalbatross@feddit.uk]

It's also partly the patent holders for H.265.

H.264 had a license fee, but it wasn't ridiculous. It was jacked up for 265, to the point that a lot of software houses no longer bundle the 265 decoder license.

It annoys me too: Security cameras often use turnkey H.265 encoding packages rather than more open codecs, which makes dealing with the files using FOSS more of a pita.