And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
aplay: "Hey kid... wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?"
"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.
Enshitification is what is happening, the original windows video player was way more capable than this modern garbage.
sometimes i forget the "new and improved" version exists, i switched my default to the old media player years 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.
VLC bypasses this by being based in a country that doesn’t recognize the software patent
The C in VLC stands for Chad
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.
If something doesn't open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
Just because VLC plays a file doesn't mean that the file isn't corrupted.
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.
VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.
Wish we could start again with a new internet.
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).
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.
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.
I absolutely love VLC
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
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.
Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn't know what software the second icon was supposed to be.
I thought it was mpv first
Really? The classic hombre sunset graphic didn't clearly say this is a Microsoft Windows product? /s
Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.
Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.
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.
Yeah, I remember everyone recommending K-Lite codec pack. But it didn't work for me, so I used the Combined Community Codec Pack.
I forgot that VLC wasn't standard. 😂 I looked at the other icon and thought "wait what's that?"
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.
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.
Try mpv
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.
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.
I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player 😞
If it's not skinnable what's even the point, right? I miss those neat visualizations. :D
Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away
mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.
remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.
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