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Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002 to c/memes

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

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[–] rtxn 235 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

aplay: "Hey kid... wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?"

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

"Oh no, I can't play this modern video file using a codec 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.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] shneancy 18 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The C in VLC stands for Chad

[–] blackjam_alex 53 points 3 weeks ago

From Wikipedia:

The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Chad" when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.

[–] Retrograde 108 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

If something doesn't open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

Just because VLC plays a file doesn't mean that the file isn't corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If something doesn't open in VLC...then you should probably try it in Media Player Classic, and if that doesn't work then the file is totally fucked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Or mpv, the real chad.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.

Wish we could start again with a new internet.

[–] ours 85 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It's because Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a GOAT and said "non" to fuck-you amounts of money to sell out VLC.

I don't know if I've had the strength to say no to that much money and obviously, that kind of cash has corrupted all but a few bastions of what makes the Internet an awesome place.

Shoutout to Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame and all those supporting the lists it depends on. Some many adblockers sold out (including the original uBlock) but he champions on making the Internet a remarkably better place when used. Dude even refuses donations (says list maintainers deserve it more).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Tin 75 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] MellowSnow 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Got any fun clips to share?

[–] Tin 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Lasherz12 42 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they've introduced since. It seems like if you make OS's you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To watch this new type of hvec media you need this free codec.

Wait did we say free i mean

~~There is a paid version next to the free one.~~

~~You can pay here, that other one is for retail and industry please dont use it, only use the paid one.~~

Your hardware doesn't support the free codec according to the error message we gave it. Hand over your money to install this identical approved one please.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

I absolutely love VLC

[–] dustyData 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

VLC is so much better than the solution I was using before it. Windows Media Player Classic with the Mega Codec Pack downloaded from a super shady warez website.

VLC has always just worked. Never had to fuck with settings or download extra shit. Dealing with codecs and different formats was such a pain in the ass until VLC came along.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I remember everyone recommending K-Lite codec pack. But it didn't work for me, so I used the Combined Community Codec Pack.

[–] daggermoon 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can't play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.

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[–] Lemminary 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If I'm not mistaken the people behind Videolan also did x264 which is a pretty major library used to encode h.264.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

It's a lesser known project from videolan but with a rather broad use online.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Try mpv

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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..

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[–] RedIce25 13 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 treat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like... well, also like they're supposed to, i guess.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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