Eventually, after I stop using my steam deck I'm going to turn it into a VLC machine. With emulators on it too
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Isn't a tablet gonna offer a larger screen for less weight if all you wanna do is watch videos
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I rarely take a laptop on trips anymore (unless its my work one), bt kb+mouse, plug in 4tb ssd (that has built in hdmi out). shitty plywood stand that i made. It's cool.
frankly the shitty cheap used laptops that i get, its probably better performance than any of them if i do need to do anything serious.
VLC... my choice since 2007.
Me, upon installing Debian KDE distro, and having Dragon Player pop up: I ALREADY INSTALLED VLC, WHAT THE HELL DUDES
It's so bizarre that KDE "makes" its "own" videoplayer when libVLC is literally a dependency of KDE.
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VLC is good but I like MPC-HC best. Open source and has a shit load of nerdy ass technical options and great upscaling through madVR.
Blu-rays.
Don't 'but' me. I literally spent the weekend getting aggravated at VLC chucking errors at me no matter how many extensions or libraries or whathaveyou I threw at it to make blu-rays work. And this isn't even the first time.
Some of my 4k videos, especially drone footage refuses to play smoothly in vlc, I couldn't be arsed to find out why, it's just annoying.
4k's are their own special thing, but for regular Blu-ray's I've had good luck using the MakeMKV integration for VLC (and Handbrake).
Technically there's also libbluray from the same folks that make VLC, but in order to use it you have to have a list of disk IDs and their decryption keys which are annoying to get ahold of (I think I remember running across a community generated list or a methodology to break the key on avsforum, but it's been years since I mucked with it- makemkv is significantly easier)
Also, if you want disk menus, you'll need to have some version of the java 8 runtime installed and configured for VLC to use.
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Shame it's shit on Android tv
Back in the day Media Player Classic was this for me. I didn't know enough about codecs but I knew that player seemed to have all of them.
Of course it's now superceded by vlc (and maybe even was at the time) but it's still a fond memory of working out why the video I downloaded only played audio.
the only one that could play the videos i recorded on my BlackBerry 2008-2012
Only on windows (or mac?), but not on linux. Which was a unexpected realisation.
Yeah, this was a surprise to me as well. Although, its the only video player I can get to play Blu-ray discs. I can even play 4K discs to a certain extent (my processor and video card just aren't up to that particular task).