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And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
Everything is a .wav, you just lack the frequency hearing range.
Back when /dev/dsp existed, you could pipe any data to it, and it'd treat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like... well, also like they're supposed to, i guess.
aplay: "Hey kid... wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?"
VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.
Wish we could start again with a new internet.
It's because Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a GOAT and said "non" to fuck-you amounts of money to sell out VLC.
I don't know if I've had the strength to say no to that much money and obviously, that kind of cash has corrupted all but a few bastions of what makes the Internet an awesome place.
Shoutout to Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame and all those supporting the lists it depends on. Some many adblockers sold out (including the original uBlock) but he champions on making the Internet a remarkably better place when used. Dude even refuses donations (says list maintainers deserve it more).
Best way to reward them would be to be like them. I'm sure they too long for world where people act with integrity
I hadn't thought of it in these terms. Sometimes, someone says something profoundly true and you just have to stop and reckon with it. Fuck RealPlayer and all the other crap (RealPlayer may have been the first (popular) app to deliberately trick people into enabling stuff (hidden checkboxes)). What if capitalism hadn't happened to the internet.
Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.
"Oh no, I can't play this modern video file using a codec that's literally been around for more than 10 years unless you pay me $0.99 for a codec pack..."
Every single time I forget to change it and I want to play an h265 file from my phone.
Enshitification is what is happening, the original windows video player was way more capable than this modern garbage.
I forgot that VLC wasn't standard. 😂 I looked at the other icon and thought "wait what's that?"
Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.
I used to write dark ambient and noise records as a hobby. I got some of my best samples from that method.
Got any fun clips to share?
I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn't the best, this is a CD rip because I've long since lost the original files, but since it's experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn't hurt much I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance
I used to do this with audacity. It's fun to open an image, and apply some audio filters to it, then export it. Makes for some interesting photo fuckery results.
Oh, I didn't know audacity would do it. Well I know how I'm wasting time at work the rest of this week...
If something doesn't open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
Just because VLC plays a file doesn't mean that the file isn't corrupted.
If something doesn't open in VLC...then you should probably try it in Media Player Classic, and if that doesn't work then the file is totally fucked.
Or mpv, the real chad.
The C in VLC stands for Chad
From Wikipedia:
The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Chad" when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.
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..
They make you pay for some codecs, it might have been that.
I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they've introduced since. It seems like if you make OS's you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove
TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.
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.
That logo paid for some kids house.
To watch this new type of hvec media you need this free codec.
Wait did we say free i mean
~~There is a paid version next to the free one.~~
~~You can pay here, that other one is for retail and industry please dont use it, only use the paid one.~~
Your hardware doesn't support the free codec according to the error message we gave it. Hand over your money to install this identical approved one please.
I absolutely love VLC
mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.
Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn't know what software the second icon was supposed to be.