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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 :(
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.
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.
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
Oh it opens them. Reliable playback is something else entirely.
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.
I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7...
Yeah me too for the simplicity. THe “new” one is shit
KODI
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.
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).
Best way to reward them would be to be like them. I'm sure they too long for world where people act with integrity
So serious question, why not take the money, become ultra rich, then immediately start a nonprofit to recreate VLC Origin
He gets to be rightfully rich, and he funds and protects a free project.
In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user's machines.
I guess he just didn't want to become attached to junkware being installed on people's machines.
I don't have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?
I would imagine whoever bought it would write a clause to say he can't create anything similar in future.
Because people would immediately call him a sell out. And because it then would be the property of whatever company, and he could be tied legally from recreating it.
If something doesn't open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
If something doesn't open in VLC your OS is probably not set to open that file type in VLC
I've had corrupted files play in VLC.
After a while it crashed VLC because of the corruption, but reopening the file and skipping pas the corruption worked, lol.
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.
I used to write dark ambient and noise records as a hobby. I got some of my best samples from that method.