501
submitted 10 months ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie

Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 68 points 10 months ago

I honestly can't remember the last time I couldn't open a video file.

[-] terminhell@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Happened to me a few months ago. Had a ticket for our District Attorney office, trying to playback a security camera footage from a parking lot or something. It would open, but, the person that was supposed to be seen would show up for a few frames and glitch out.

Turns out the cam system it came from uses some very proprietary codec. So the footage was effectively useless without their special sauce player/codec

[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds infuriating. I would have assumed most of these use h.264 because of how ubiquitous it is.

I am guessing this is by design so when you really need it, you'll use their software and need to pay to use it?

[-] terminhell@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I guess. I tried everything within reason to play it. VLC, mpv, windows media player etc. all with various degrees of failure. Even went down a rabbit hole of trying codecs from websites that looked frozen in time from the late 90's, as it was an old cam system.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I can! Happened all the time 20 years ago. Since then, no.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Only on smart tv’s do I see it these days. It’s a risk so I bring a laptop to play and plug in via hdmi.

[-] Inktvip@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I'm working in live video and there's a lot of proprietary codecs out there that vlc doesn't play by default. Most of those are lossless/very high bitrate lossy formats designed to be encoded and decoded quickly for things like instant replays, so not something the average consumer would get their hands on.

[-] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

My smart tv refuses to work with .mkv so it happens regularly for me.

this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
501 points (100.0% liked)

Memes

45719 readers
886 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS