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submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yea that was 98/ME era right? The one with the crazy skins lmao

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)

and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.

[-] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago

You just unlocked a memory. My grandparents bought us a computer that had ME installed in 2001. It was a nightmare.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that's more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

[-] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

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[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌

(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

I just use Media Player Classic to rip CDs the handful of times a year I get a new CD and just want to quickly rip it without running to a different computer

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago
[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

They re-named it "Kodi" but a lot of the stuff in it doesn't work very well anymore

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

VLC is fairly common but the people who use Kodi, jellyfin, or Plex are in a very small minority compared to everyone else.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Since the time of internet I've used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years--pushing the 'app' shit instead.

on win11, you should find 'windows media player legacy' hiding in 'windows tools'.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

You know VLC is soo good even your school used it.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

No, that's because it's free.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

One of the reasons ig

[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 points 3 months ago

IIRC you have to pay for a certain media format. 1984

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