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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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I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7…
Yeah me too for the simplicity. THe “new” one is shit
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 preat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like… well, like they’re supposed to, i guess.
I could never get VLC to player videos without weird video issues.
First time I hear of someone having problems opening whatever format in vlc. I mean if there’s a program that reads each an everyone of them it’s VLC
Are you on linux and are describing this issue where VLC cannot be reopened after exiting without logging out and logging back in?
Windows. And nah it’s more like while playing any given video file there will be moments where it looks as if the video is corrupted or something. Strange video artifacts that affect the entire viewport. The issue isn’t actually in the file, as the spots are random upon playback. These were all h.264 mkv files I had trouble with so maybe the issue was with that codec but at the same time that’s the most common codec used for encoding entertainment media for playback. Moving those files over to an iPhone and playing them with infuse worked flawlessly.
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…
They make you pay for some codecs, it might have been that.
It was and fuck that if they can’t even include the most basic ones
It’s licensing bullshit. They refuse to pay the codec license mafia (idk how the organization is called)
Don’t care. They have trillions of dollars. They can figure something out.
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.
That logo paid for some kids house.
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.
I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files
And it stutters when playing .ts files.
Typescript?
DVD
For me i tried playing Bad apple in 4K it struggled
4k gif? Oh please, be serious.
Nah video but thanks for reminding me to edit my comment
I love gif files
“Oh no, I can’t play this modern video file using a code 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.
I think this part actually isn’t enshittification. I think this is being legally cautious, as you probably should be when you’re Microsoft.
Yeah blame some for using a nonfree format lol, literally none wise uses it
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
You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.
mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they’re not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.
I forgot that VLC wasn’t standard. 😂 I looked at the other icon and thought “wait what’s that?”
Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.
I think it does it for hvec too
Looks like your right, included by default:
MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, VC-1, Windows Media Video (WMV), DV, VP8, Motion JPEG
Then they have add-ons in the store, the HEVC I believe said was a dollar to use on 10 devices with that account. that’s terrible
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.
Let me recommend Strawberry Music Player. It is multi-platform, open source, has a nice library organization system and links to Musicbrainz for identification.
For some reason it always puts ampersands in the text on the left side, for me anyways. Like, it’ll say “Alb&ums” and stuff like that.
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.
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’.
