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Playing an unsupported file (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 70 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I honestly can't remember the last time I couldn't open a video file.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I guess. I tried everything within reason to play it. VLC, mpv, windows media player etc. all with various degrees of failure. Even went down a rabbit hole of trying codecs from websites that looked frozen in time from the late 90's, as it was an old cam system.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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