And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
KODI
I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7…
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.
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
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.
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…
It’s licensing bullshit. They refuse to pay the codec license mafia (idk how the organization is called)
