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Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.
If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd
The file extension is exe, am I doing something wrong?
Have you tried installing it as system admin? Make sure to check all boxes and click next as well.
Boss? Is that you?
Yes. That’s terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!
All my homies use mpv
MPV gang rize up!
Yeah, if VLC can’t do it, I’d bet my money nothing can
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
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.
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)
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.
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
If it’s Android tv then yes, there is a VLC version for that.
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lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.
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.
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
mpv my beloved
VLC-heads in this thread are a decade behind
We’re streets ahead.
What troglodyte doesn’t use VLC nowadays?
mpv enjoyers
People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven’t had to use VLC since like 2009
Exactly, but better use jellyfin.
VLC
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
Mp4 and mkv are container formats. Your comment is somewhat equivalent to “where are you guys getting text files that can’t be displayed, I’ve only ever seen zip files”.
The codec in the container is what needs to be played, and can fail to render correctly.
And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with “interesting movie” written in it
Any Player will not be able to decode some files if they are downloaded in pieces and not even the header data is complete.
It depends, there are decent chances you’ll get the video to play from the next I frame onwards.
lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?
tf is wrong witchoo boi
VLC to the rescue!
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.
Comments like this reminded me of how dark of a world it used to be.
I still install klite out of habit.
VLC, MPV
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.
No big deal, just download the codices.
Eh, my internet is 1gbps, I can just download something else
the people you are downloading from usually don’t have such speed tho
Doesn’t matter when you download off of dozens at once. This is what torrents do.
cries in downloads such obscure stuff that I’m lucky if it has 2 or 3 seeds
I have a 4gbit line, and while I usually use Usenet to download a lot of torrents still easily reach 2-3gbit up/down.
That’s why torrenting allows you to download different parts of the file from multiple people at the same time.
Am I too 1Gb/s fiber connected to understand that?
