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.
If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd
The file extension is exe, am I doing something wrong?
Have you tried installing it as system admin? Make sure to check all boxes and click next as well.
Boss? Is that you?
It’s a scam don’t follow the instructions.
If you can’t find a different release there aren’t any legnimate releases of that title.
Nice of you for being concerned and telling. But it‘s a joke.
Oh.
And at this point it's not a scam it's a virus that they've already opened hence the fake error message.
Yes. That's terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!
I honestly can't remember the last time I couldn't open a video file.
Happened to me a few months ago. Had a ticket for our District Attorney office, trying to playback a security camera footage from a parking lot or something. It would open, but, the person that was supposed to be seen would show up for a few frames and glitch out.
Turns out the cam system it came from uses some very proprietary codec. So the footage was effectively useless without their special sauce player/codec
I can! Happened all the time 20 years ago. Since then, no.
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I'm working in live video and there's a lot of proprietary codecs out there that vlc doesn't play by default. Most of those are lossless/very high bitrate lossy formats designed to be encoded and decoded quickly for things like instant replays, so not something the average consumer would get their hands on.
All my homies use mpv
MPV gang rize up!
I always use VLC so I thought the meme was that it was one of those fake "codec not supported, go to this sketchy website" videos
Yeah, if VLC can't do it, I'd bet my money nothing can
I've only had this problem playing the video on TV directly. Like smart TV. Can I put VLC on there?
I use jellyfin to do transcoding, but very occasionally it exhibits issues still.
Something I don't see a lot of people do but totally should is get a really long HDMI cable and snake it around the room. You can then hook up a laptop or hell even your desktop directly to the TV. Think my cable is around 20 feet and I got it off Amazon for dirt cheap. Works wonders when I want to watch something on Plex (a lot of smart TV's have trouble with Plex)
lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.
Uninstall that shit and use VLC
And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.
VLC
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
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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.
And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with "interesting movie" written in it
me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc
lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?
tf is wrong witchoo boi
This reminded me of having to install a codec pack like klite or cccp as one of the first things on a fresh install. I'm glad that isn't a thing anymore.
Comments like this reminded me of how dark of a world it used to be.
VLC, MPV
Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.
VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
Sounds a bit small for a movie
Eh, my internet is 1gbps, I can just download something else
the people you are downloading from usually don't have such speed tho
Doesn't matter when you download off of dozens at once. This is what torrents do.
cries in downloads such obscure stuff that I'm lucky if it has 2 or 3 seeds