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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.

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[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 282 points 10 months ago

If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 74 points 10 months ago

The file extension is exe, am I doing something wrong?

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

Have you tried installing it as system admin? Make sure to check all boxes and click next as well.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Boss? Is that you?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 10 months ago

It’s a scam don’t follow the instructions.

If you can’t find a different release there aren’t any legnimate releases of that title.

[-] sternail@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Nice of you for being concerned and telling. But it‘s a joke.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago
[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

And at this point it's not a scam it's a virus that they've already opened hence the fake error message.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yes. That's terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!

[-] 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

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[-] 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.

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[-] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago
[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

MPV gang rize up!

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if VLC can't do it, I'd bet my money nothing can

[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

I always use VLC so I thought the meme was that it was one of those fake "codec not supported, go to this sketchy website" videos

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I've only had this problem playing the video on TV directly. Like smart TV. Can I put VLC on there?

I use jellyfin to do transcoding, but very occasionally it exhibits issues still.

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

Something I don't see a lot of people do but totally should is get a really long HDMI cable and snake it around the room. You can then hook up a laptop or hell even your desktop directly to the TV. Think my cable is around 20 feet and I got it off Amazon for dirt cheap. Works wonders when I want to watch something on Plex (a lot of smart TV's have trouble with Plex)

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[-] Steve@startrek.website 105 points 10 months ago

Uninstall that shit and use VLC

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 19 points 10 months ago

And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.

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[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

MPC-HC also a very good choice

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[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 57 points 10 months ago

What troglodyte doesn't use VLC nowadays?

[-] taanegl@beehaw.org 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

It's bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don't use that then it's good

[-] sizing743@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven't had to use VLC since like 2009

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Exactly, but better use jellyfin.

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[-] haroldstork@lemm.ee 43 points 10 months ago
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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago
[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago

where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I've only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think

[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 74 points 10 months ago
[-] milkytoast@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago
[-] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 15 points 10 months ago

Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files

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[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with "interesting movie" written in it

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[-] cupcakezealot 20 points 10 months ago

me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc

[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?

tf is wrong witchoo boi

[-] liss_up@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

VLC to the rescue!

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

Average Windows user.

BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is "2.5 GiB".

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

I spent $20 on this video player but it doesn't support my format! Does anyone know if the $50 pro version works? /s

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[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

This reminded me of having to install a codec pack like klite or cccp as one of the first things on a fresh install. I'm glad that isn't a thing anymore.

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[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago
[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 10 months ago

Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.

VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc

[-] variants@possumpat.io 8 points 10 months ago

Sounds a bit small for a movie

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).

[-] cumcum69@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Eh, my internet is 1gbps, I can just download something else

[-] notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

the people you are downloading from usually don't have such speed tho

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter when you download off of dozens at once. This is what torrents do.

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