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submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

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[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For me i tried playing a Bad apple video in 4K it struggled

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

4k gif? Oh please, be serious.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Nah video but thanks for reminding me to edit my comment

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

That's the logo for a multi-billion dollar corporation's built-in media player for their flagship OS? It looks like one of my side projects.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

VLC is okay..but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

Let me recommend Strawberry Music Player. It is multi-platform, open source, has a nice library organization system and links to Musicbrainz for identification.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

For some reason it always puts ampersands in the text on the left side, for me anyways. Like, it'll say "Alb&ums" and stuff like that.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

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..

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[-] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 9 points 1 week ago
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[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player ๐Ÿ˜ž

[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away

[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Never knew that one.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yea that was 98/ME era right? The one with the crazy skins lmao

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)

and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.

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[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I could never get VLC to player videos without weird video issues.

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[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that's more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

[-] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

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[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Media Player Classic enjoyer here ๐Ÿ‘Œ

(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)

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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Since the time of internet I've used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years--pushing the 'app' shit instead.

on win11, you should find 'windows media player legacy' hiding in 'windows tools'.

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