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.

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 year 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.mlOPM
      6·
      1 year 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.

      • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year 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)

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I took a little ASROCK DeskMini and put a 5700G in it to serve as a media and light gaming station. My family uses it more than I do now.

          You could easily do this with a pi 5 or pi variant for cheap.

        • olutukko@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          This! 10meter hdmi cable came in really handy in my last apartment for connecting pc to tv while having the cable completely hidden all thr time. Now I would need like 20m cable and I would have to drill it trough walls. Just laptop and chromecast now. It’s a bit sad that I cant just open any game on my tv without carrying the pc from another room

    • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I recently downloaded some YouTube videos that my dad wanted to play through USB with his Android based projector, as it doesn’t have the PlayStore and the videos didn’t want to play (and I knew they worked fine on my mac) I went quickly to its store just to find out VLC wasn’t there, and I didn’t have time to sideload stuff (I didn’t even know if it was possible), hopefully there was FX File Explorer and that one comes with a video player which was able to save the day.

    • jeffw@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Beat me to it. I haven’t had an unsupported file error in the decade I’ve been using VLC. Maybe one time I had to download something to support a rare file type

      • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Installing MPC-HC during K-Lite Code pack as my primary media player has taken place of VLC for me this last year. I have been using VLC as music player only with some Winamp-like no-viewport UI lately.

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Been using both MPC-HC and VLC for years now. Between the two of them there is no file that you cannot play.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year 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.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
    111·
    1 year ago

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

  • Timbo303@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.

  • Andrew@mander.xyz
    526·
    1 year ago

    Average Windows user.

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