Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie
Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.
me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc
Sounds a bit small for a movie
Average Windows user.
BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is “2.5 GiB”.
I spent $20 on this video player but it doesn’t support my format! Does anyone know if the $50 pro version works? /s
Yeah, its called vlc. You can download it only if you pay 50$ in “Donate” section
-s
The FOSS to the rescue.
When user says “Linux is too complicated”
I have probably triggered all the Windows users.
They hated him, because he was telling the truth.
No big deal, just download the codices.
Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.
VLC to the rescue!
Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.
VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc
VLC, MPV
Console
medianfo your.fileplease.Why is it a big deal? 2.5Gb takes like 20-30 seconds to download
Until not that long ago, my average speed was less than 1 Mbps because of insufficient infrastructure in the area.
Bold of you to assume internet access is great everywhere
2.5 GB in 30 seconds is 83 MB/s.
With speeds like that why haven’t you downloaded a functioning brain yet?
I forget that some people have crazy fast internet. Mine downloads 2.5gb in like 20 minutes.
mpv my beloved
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
What troglodyte doesn’t use VLC nowadays?
People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven’t had to use VLC since like 2009
Exactly, but better use jellyfin.
mpv enjoyers
Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?
It’s bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don’t use that then it’s good
mpv is more effective. Worse user interface though
VLC: I’m here to help.
where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I’ve only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think
It’s an “.avi.exe”.
yeah idk if vlc does .exe
Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files
I’m sure there’s a way
Hold my beer
i actually accidentally made all exe files open in Windows Media Center on a family pc as a kid.
basically the system had to be reinstalled.
Mp4 and mkv are container formats. Your comment is somewhat equivalent to “where are you guys getting text files that can’t be displayed, I’ve only ever seen zip files”.
The codec in the container is what needs to be played, and can fail to render correctly.
