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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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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.
KODI
I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7…
Yeah me too for the simplicity. THe “new” one is shit
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.
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.
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.
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 forgot that VLC wasn’t standard. 😂 I looked at the other icon and thought “wait what’s that?”
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.
I hadn’t thought of it in these terms. Sometimes, someone says something profoundly true and you just have to stop and reckon with it. Fuck RealPlayer and all the other crap (RealPlayer may have been the first (popular) app to deliberately trick people into enabling stuff (hidden checkboxes)). What if capitalism hadn’t happened to the internet.
Thank you.
aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”why is that valuable though
Because you can listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?
Who are you?
I am someone who likes to listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card.
I have a script for this! I took the commands from somewhere, I just put them into a script. https://codeberg.org/JetpackJackson/arch-dotfiles/src/branch/main/shared/scripts/kernel-songs
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Why are you so angry lol? Most of your post history is just you yelling at random people on the internet. It’s weird.
aplaydoesn’t bitch about encodings or signatures or checksums or something not looking like a media file. If you do something stupid (like pipe an executable file into it), it won’t tell you to go back to the child-safe play pen, it will pass the data to ALSA and do its best to render it as sound.The Windows mind can’t comprehend the importance of the freedom to fuck around. But, looking at your comment history, you’re more of a professional contrarian and won’t even try to do that.
Why does it need value? Living to extract value and nothing else is toxic to your body mind and soul.
why is it not
that’s not an answer :/
You now they’re just being silly, right?
Know*
Seriously?
Mah poor fat fingers
That’s what the meme is praising VLC for
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.
I used to do this with audacity. It’s fun to open an image, and apply some audio filters to it, then export it. Makes for some interesting photo fuckery results.
Oh, I didn’t know audacity would do it. Well I know how I’m wasting time at work the rest of this week…
Got any fun clips to share?
I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn’t the best, this is a CD rip because I’ve long since lost the original files, but since it’s experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn’t hurt much I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance
I cant remember the command now, but there was one on linux which let you play anything, I remember /usr/bin/ls sounded nice.
aplay is pretty decent
I definitely have pointed it at /dev/random
If something doesn’t open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
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.
Just because VLC plays a file doesn’t mean that the file isn’t corrupted.
If something doesn’t open in VLC…then you should probably try it in Media Player Classic, and if that doesn’t work then the file is totally fucked.
Or mpv, the real chad.
If something doesn’t open in VLC your OS is probably not set to open that file type in VLC
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Seriously wtf 😭
- Who bots Lemmy wtf
- About Brazilian politics? On an English community?
Who and why?
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Nao tems nada que ver com windows media player
I, too, would like to know when will you Brazilians stop letting Bolsonaro get away with using Windows Media Player?
What would this sound like played in aplay?
sir this is a Wendy’s drive thru
What the fuck did you just say about me, you little shit? I’ll have you know that I…
“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.
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.
sometimes i forget the “new and improved” version exists, i switched my default to the old media player years ago
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
VLC bypasses this by being based in a country that doesn’t recognize the software patent
The C in VLC stands for Chad
From Wikipedia:
The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for “VideoLAN Chad” when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.
I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they’ve introduced since. It seems like if you make OS’s you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove
TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.Very true, unfortunately if something makes money other companies will line up to copycat even if the real product is licensing they don’t have full access to.
It works better because everything else is geared towards maximum monetization to the direct detriment of the user and the UX. Those alternatives suck simply because “working better” on its own is financially worthless to those selling this shit.
I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I’m having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player…
Fucking real player😩
Hold on, I need about 12 minutes to render your video and even then it’s going to be at postage stamp sized resolution and sound like someone stuck a brick in a blender.
Oh no, real player has plucked a chord in me I’ve long forgotten about too lol.
Has it finally finished buffering enough for you to hear that chord?
Not yet, I had to start over because I clicked a new spot in the video before it loaded, and that is a mortal sin.
Everything that Microsoft has tried to improve has ultimately gotten worse. I recently installed Windows 2000 in a VM to install a similarly old game and it was kinda jarring how well it just worked and how much it didn’t suck compared to a fresh install of Windows 10 or Windows 11. Obviously there were some very dated concepts especially related to networking (it clearly was designed for a world where a lot of people only plug their computer into a phone line for dial-up, or just directly place their desktop on the internet with a public IP, and letting it listen to a DHCP server and connect to an existing network was weirdly obscured)
iTunes 1.0 was amazing. It didn’t turn to shit until they tried to make it an everything-app.
