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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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[–] 288 points 2 years ago (34 children)

If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The file extension is exe, am I doing something wrong?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s a scam don’t follow the instructions.

    If you can’t find a different release there aren’t any legnimate releases of that title.

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

    Nice of you for being concerned and telling. But it‘s a joke.

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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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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I've only had this problem playing the video on TV directly. Like smart TV. Can I put VLC on there?

    I use jellyfin to do transcoding, but very occasionally it exhibits issues still.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Something I don't see a lot of people do but totally should is get a really long HDMI cable and snake it around the room. You can then hook up a laptop or hell even your desktop directly to the TV. Think my cable is around 20 feet and I got it off Amazon for dirt cheap. Works wonders when I want to watch something on Plex (a lot of smart TV's have trouble with Plex)

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    [–] 113 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Uninstall that shit and use VLC

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

    What troglodyte doesn't use VLC nowadays?

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I've only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with "interesting movie" written in it

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    VLC to the rescue!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?

    tf is wrong witchoo boi

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

    This reminded me of having to install a codec pack like klite or cccp as one of the first things on a fresh install. I'm glad that isn't a thing anymore.

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    I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.

    VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc

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  • VLC: I'm here to help.

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