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Re: The team that powers VLC (2019)

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Post by zardo » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #38

kdjfjf7d7 wrote: post #23

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I dont think VLC is bad by any means or that anyone shouldn't use it, I just don't understand the comments I often see on HN acting like it's some unprecedented software that's unlike anything else.

VLC is unique in its support for every codec under the sun. If it refuses to play a video file, it's probably because it's damaged beyond recovery, or not a video file at all. The default Windows and smartphone video players choke on all kinds of files, so you can't really expect that any given file is supported.

>VLC is unique in its support for every codec under the sun. If it refuses to play a video file, it's probably because it's damaged beyond recovery, or not a video file at all.

Last I checked the recommended method to play h.265 files in VLC was to re-encode them.

Re: The team that powers VLC (2019)

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Post by voidskull » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 1:14 AM UTC

Eelongate wrote: post #53

GhettoComputers wrote: post #44

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I asked not because I can't google them, but to open it from the player, is that at all possible or do I have to go online to the homepage, github, and open my terminal to find out how to change settings in MPV? >There are advantages and disadvantages to this. It's cross platform, so the same psuedo-gui code works the same on every platform I can't find it on iOS anyway but VLC is there, I don't know the benefit of h…

> but MPV is like starting a program in your shell with no man files. I can start virtually any program in a shell if I want to, VLC included. And I can't imagine what you mean by "with no man files" since mpv has a superb manpage. > I can control through d-bus Extremely limited. As far as I've been able to tell it doesn't allow you to run arbitrary commands or observe arbitrary properties, making it barely more capa…

I'm just curious, why do you hate terminal emulators ? I read you saying this statement twice in this discussion.

Re: The team that powers VLC (2019)

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Post by selfhoster11 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

zardo wrote: post #71

selfhoster11 wrote: post #38

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VLC is unique in its support for every codec under the sun. If it refuses to play a video file, it's probably because it's damaged beyond recovery, or not a video file at all. The default Windows and smartphone video players choke on all kinds of files, so you can't really expect that any given file is supported.

>VLC is unique in its support for every codec under the sun. If it refuses to play a video file, it's probably because it's damaged beyond recovery, or not a video file at all. Last I checked the recommended method to play h.265 files in VLC was to re-encode them.

Realtime 265 decoding requires hardware support. There's not much they can be done by software it your driver/OS/graphics card combination cannot support that.

Re: The team that powers VLC (2019)

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Post by zardo » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #73

zardo wrote: post #71

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>VLC is unique in its support for every codec under the sun. If it refuses to play a video file, it's probably because it's damaged beyond recovery, or not a video file at all. Last I checked the recommended method to play h.265 files in VLC was to re-encode them.

Realtime 265 decoding requires hardware support. There's not much they can be done by software it your driver/OS/graphics card combination cannot support that.

MPC manages stutter free playback provided the resolution isn't too high.