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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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[–] [email protected] 288 points 10 months ago (11 children)

If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd

[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

Have you tried installing it as system admin? Make sure to check all boxes and click next as well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Boss? Is that you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And at this point it's not a scam it's a virus that they've already opened hence the fake error message.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes. That's terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I can! Happened all the time 20 years ago. Since then, no.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

MPV gang rize up!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I always use VLC so I thought the meme was that it was one of those fake "codec not supported, go to this sketchy website" videos

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if VLC can't do it, I'd bet my money nothing can

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months 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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[–] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Uninstall that shit and use VLC

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

MPC-HC also a very good choice

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

this is the correct answer

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What troglodyte doesn't use VLC nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven't had to use VLC since like 2009

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Exactly, but better use jellyfin.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months 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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

VLC to the rescue!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?

tf is wrong witchoo boi

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

VLC: I'm here to help.

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