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

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

VLC bypasses this by being based in a country that doesn’t recognize the software patent

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

No, that's because it's free.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

And couldn't crack/play DVD without them.

[tonytonychopper@mander.xyz]

Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.

[tin@lemmy.world]

I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way.

The Machinal - Disturbance

Listen to The Machinal - Disturbance, a playlist curated by The Machinal on desktop and mobile.

SoundCloud (soundcloud.com)

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Nah video but thanks for reminding me to edit my comment

[mwa@lemm.ee]

One of the reasons ig

[lud@lemm.ee]

VLC is fairly common but the people who use Kodi, jellyfin, or Plex are in a very small minority compared to everyone else.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I hadn't thought of it in these terms. Sometimes, someone says something profoundly true and you just have to stop and reckon with it. Fuck RealPlayer and all the other crap (RealPlayer may have been the first (popular) app to deliberately trick people into enabling stuff (hidden checkboxes)). What if capitalism hadn't happened to the internet.

[jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world]

What the fuck did you just say about me, you little shit? I'll have you know that I...

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

iTunes 1.0 was amazing. It didn't turn to shit until they tried to make it an everything-app.

[leate_wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I forgot that VLC wasn't standard. I looked at the other icon and thought "wait what's that?"

[caseyweederman@lemmy.ca]

aplay is pretty decent
I definitely have pointed it at /dev/random

[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.