• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        It seems to fail with some files. I think 4k and/or .mkv ones. I’ve had to use Kodi during those times instead. I’ve not going a great simple media player to use on Android tv yet. They all have their caveats. Unless there’s a better one I’ve not found yet.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    VLC sucks ass when you want to do any type of live transcoding or remuxing without setting up a video stream. Especially with multichannel audio:

    This has been an issue ever since feature added, the maximum bitrate you c

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      My experience with VLC in Linux is subpar. In Windows it was always a good tool to have. Granted for me it was just, does this shit have working codecs, phew, it plays

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Somehow I’m unable to let VLC play any kind of video on my Arch (actually cachyos) laptop. Whatever the format it says codec is missing even if I installed everything (mpv, totem and others can play them).

    (I tried to install vlc-git from aur but then gave up when after 30 minutes was still compiling, I don’t have enough patience to wait all that time every time I run yay)

    I’m forced to run the flatpak version of VLC for some reason, the only way to make it work

        • nshibj@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          I know, but what about when I have several subtitle files? Different languages, or maybe several subtitle files I downloaded and want to check which one matches my video? mpv has zero flexibility.

          With VLC I can just “Subtitle / Add subtitle track” or add the language code after the filename (video.en.srt, video.fr.srt, video.spa.srt), with mpv: just one file at a time: rename, launch, retry.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I don’t know what it is about mpv that makes it my favourite. Gstreamer is performative enough. FFplay is also pretty clean. Cvlc is fine.

      I think I just like that it has sensible controls, and ultimately gets out of the way

      • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        I really like the configuration aspect of it. You can customize how it works internally and how it even looks. For example, I use a big 1m diagonal TV as my main screen and I sit about 45cm in front of it. So with bidirectional integer scaling, Full HD looks kind of blurry and bad, but with lanczos scaling it looks great! And that’s why I like MPV.

  • polle@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Only on windows (or mac?), but not on linux. Which was a unexpected realisation.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Which is what I did. Had an old 2nd gen Nexus 7 from 2013 which I used as an occasional media player. Finally died back in January, had VLC running on it until its last day!

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled

    VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      I had it once play a video recorded on an old Motorola razr circa 2004. It was this super obscure file format, that basically only this one phone used, and was never used on any other phone.

      VLC didn’t care, played it right out of the box without any problems.

      It supports an obscure single use, 2004 video format. If aliens come to earth, VLC will be able to play their files too.

  • SereneSadie@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Blu-rays.

    Don’t ‘but’ me. I literally spent the weekend getting aggravated at VLC chucking errors at me no matter how many extensions or libraries or whathaveyou I threw at it to make blu-rays work. And this isn’t even the first time.

    • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      4k’s are their own special thing, but for regular Blu-ray’s I’ve had good luck using the MakeMKV integration for VLC (and Handbrake).

      Technically there’s also libbluray from the same folks that make VLC, but in order to use it you have to have a list of disk IDs and their decryption keys which are annoying to get ahold of (I think I remember running across a community generated list or a methodology to break the key on avsforum, but it’s been years since I mucked with it- makemkv is significantly easier)

      Also, if you want disk menus, you’ll need to have some version of the java 8 runtime installed and configured for VLC to use.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Blu-rays are purposely made to be combersome to read and use without explicit permission from the Blu-Ray commission.

      Blu-rays aren’t DVDs, each release has a unique encryption on it that you either break, or use a program to scan and break for you with public listings of known keys.

      VLC would need to ask the Blu-Ray Group to open up their software on how encoding and decoding works, and they never will.

      Sony gets a cut for every single Blu-ray, it’s why you need to install the app for Xbox when the gaming console can naturally play Blu-ray discs for games. Microsoft doesn’t want to fork over more money to it’s main competitor, and part of why they backed HD DVD.

      Is it VLCs fault? Not really. If they had a lot of money and man hours they could maybe work something out. But DVDs are child’s play to figure out compared to Blu-Rays. That’s on purpose.

    • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Don’t get mad at the software trying to do it’s best to overcome intentionally malicious coding.

    • MrSmith@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yep, to me, simply because it can be color managed. Just because VLC will play anything, doesn’t mean it’ll play it well.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Both are good tools for the job. I use mpv but VLC just works for 99% of use cases. mpv is best for working with terminals, vlc is best for GUI and is consistently easy on any operating system, even android.

        • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          I mean, it is user-friendly in some ways, depending how you define that.

          Double-click a video and it opens. You get a visually appealing, sleek and minimalistic UI that helpfully appears only when your mouse is over the video, and otherwise gets out of the way. You can seek, adjust volume, select audio language and subtitles, and that’s it. Very uncluttered, obvious and easy in the way that modern applications try to be.

          For most usage, that’s enough. It’s when you find yourself needing to pan/scan, or change subtitle offset, or enable looping etc you discover there are no buttons or menus for those things and you have to go hit the docs to discover what the keybinds are.

  • Rose@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Me, upon installing Debian KDE distro, and having Dragon Player pop up: I ALREADY INSTALLED VLC, WHAT THE HELL DUDES

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      It’s so bizarre that KDE “makes” its “own” videoplayer when libVLC is literally a dependency of KDE.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        The real question is why they make two! Did a fresh install of Fedora KDE the other day and had to remove dragon and installed haruna.