And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.
remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.
Yea that was 98/ME era right? The one with the crazy skins lmao
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.
You just unlocked a memory. My grandparents bought us a computer that had ME installed in 2001. It was a nightmare.
I could never get VLC to player videos without weird video issues.
First time I hear of someone having problems opening whatever format in vlc. I mean if there’s a program that reads each an everyone of them it’s VLC
Are you on linux and are describing this issue where VLC cannot be reopened after exiting without logging out and logging back in?
Windows. And nah it’s more like while playing any given video file there will be moments where it looks as if the video is corrupted or something. Strange video artifacts that affect the entire viewport. The issue isn’t actually in the file, as the spots are random upon playback. These were all h.264 mkv files I had trouble with so maybe the issue was with that codec but at the same time that’s the most common codec used for encoding entertainment media for playback. Moving those files over to an iPhone and playing them with infuse worked flawlessly.
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.
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.
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
Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌
(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)
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.
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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