And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that’s more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

    • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    “Oh no, I can’t play this modern video file using a code that’s literally been around for more than 10 years unless you pay me $0.99 for a codec pack…”

    Every single time I forget to change it and I want to play an h265 file from my phone.

    • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Enshitification is what is happening, the original windows video player was way more capable than this modern garbage.

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        sometimes i forget the “new and improved” version exists, i switched my default to the old media player years ago

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        I think this part actually isn’t enshittification. I think this is being legally cautious, as you probably should be when you’re Microsoft.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
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        8 days ago

        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.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Not Media Player, but Windows Movie and TV Player plays video files clearer with better hue and color than any other player paid or open source, and I’ve tried them all. You can’t adjust anything in it, if the subtitles are off you’re fucked and gotta go back to VLC, but the look of the default video processing in the WMT app is hands down the best I’ve ever seen. I’d guess out of all the different types of codecs there are about .5% that aren’t compatible with it, but it’s my app of choice.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I just use the photos app. It does everything I’ve tried just as well as the movie app, and it actually works. I find it funny that the photo app is better than the video app at playing videos.

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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        7 days ago

        couldn’t play “IP” “HLG” 2160p video’s acceptably in windows with anything but kodi which is really cumbersome (vlc included), looked up mpv, installed it, it’s working like a charm, thanks for the tip

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn’t know what software the second icon was supposed to be.

  • Tin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.

    • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

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

    • Irelephant@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      I cant remember the command now, but there was one on linux which let you play anything, I remember /usr/bin/ls sounded nice.

      • Tin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        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 quality isn’t the best, this is a CD rip because I’ve long since lost the original files, but since it’s experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn’t hurt much I guess.

        https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance

    • ShunkW@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      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.

      • Tin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

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

  • macniel@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.

      • macniel@feddit.org
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        9 days ago

        2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)

        and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

    VLC is okay…but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

      • swab148@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        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.

    • portuga@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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

    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 days ago

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

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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 so maybe the issue was with that codec but at the same time that’s the most common codec used for encoding entertainment media for playback. Moving those files over to an iPhone and playing them with infuse worked flawlessly.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    8 days ago

    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…

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”

  • coaxil@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

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