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You had that screenshot locked and loaded π
I get the sense that VLC doesn't really care if something is a valid video file, it's just gonna start playing and see what happens.
You can shove French fries into a CD drive and vlc will still make it a video
Extract the eyes of murder victims and VLC will show their final moments.
Rallys/Checkers fries? Or Burger King? Because there is a HUGE difference!
Or Wendys?
Or McDonalds?
WHOSE FRIES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT??? I WANT TO WATCH VIDEOS ON FRENCH FRIES!!!!
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I'm pretty sure it can still do that. Like if you can trick it into playing something that isn't even video, it'll shit out whatever it can interpret as video. Which of course will be garbled nonsense, but it did exactly what you asked.
I wish every program was this way. Fuck off with your file format restrictions, I know what Im doing
Audacity does as well and I use it to edit pictures sometimes.
Yes pictures.
You can get some interesting effects from it.
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I recall a few AVIs from the long ago that VLC would throw an error on, something about a format error, and it gave the option to try converting it or try playing as-is. Attempting to convert took forever, and playback was mostly fine, though IIRC you couldn't scrub through the file.
Yeah it absolutely can fix broken avi files! Was a lifesaver back in high-school for me, during that era, avi was every camcorder format (at least that I had).
I always stored it on this 128gb external drive and I swear that drive was cursed, always corrupted my files. Vlc was an easy way to fix them for class.
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MacOS was telling me "Open this openSUSE ISO in: Balena Etcher, VLC"
what
VLC be like: "it's a disk image is it not?????"
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The creator of VLC just won the European SFS Award "in recognition of his outstanding and lasting contributions to the Free Software movement and his long-term dedication to the VLC project."
Til vlc is older than me
TIL Iβm older than you.
TIL I still need to schedule that colonoscopy
Get checked everyone! If you listened to the album β(Whatβs the Story) Morning Gloryβ in HS, itβs time for a mammogram and/or colonoscopy.
Hey now I'm not that ancient, I was listening to Amish Paradice in high school, but I am getting to the age where I need to schedule a colonoscopy.....
I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled
VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge
VLC: "I am 4 Parallel Universes ahead of you"
I had it once play a video recorded on an old Motorola razr circa 2004. It was this super obscure file format, that basically only this one phone used, and was never used on any other phone.
VLC didn't care, played it right out of the box without any problems.
It supports an obscure single use, 2004 video format. If aliens come to earth, VLC will be able to play their files too.
sad ffmpeg noises
Dont you mean sad libavcodec noises?
VLC, IPlayer, and FFMpeg are interfaces for libavcodec π
it's repo is part of the ffmpeg one
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/tree/HEAD:/libavcodec
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sad mpv noises
Long ago; a non-tech friend saying to another non-tech friend. "you should try it on VLC; it'll play a slice of cucumber" when referring to some obscure video file they had.
And it still supports devices with Android version 4.2 (released on November 13, 2012) and newer. That's a 13 year old release.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.videolan.vlc/
Perfect use of old devices as a media player. It struggles with modern file formats but having modern UI and support this long is epic.
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There are other media players?
Somehow I'm unable to let VLC play any kind of video on my Arch (actually cachyos) laptop. Whatever the format it says codec is missing even if I installed everything (mpv, totem and others can play them).
(I tried to install vlc-git from aur but then gave up when after 30 minutes was still compiling, I don't have enough patience to wait all that time every time I run yay)
I'm forced to run the flatpak version of VLC for some reason, the only way to make it work
You should read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player
Likely you just want vlc-plugins-all
Developed by the French and funded by the EU. I'll download it.
If you're telling us you found Lemmy before vlc that's honestly remarkable.
Despite that I still like it
Arch split out the h264 decoders from vlc, and its not installed by default, so last time I needed to use it, it didn't work. No idea why they did that.
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