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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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I honestly can't remember the last time I couldn't open a video file.
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
Sounds infuriating. I would have assumed most of these use h.264 because of how ubiquitous it is.
I am guessing this is by design so when you really need it, you'll use their software and need to pay to use it?
I guess. I tried everything within reason to play it. VLC, mpv, windows media player etc. all with various degrees of failure. Even went down a rabbit hole of trying codecs from websites that looked frozen in time from the late 90's, as it was an old cam system.
I can! Happened all the time 20 years ago. Since then, no.
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I'm working in live video and there's a lot of proprietary codecs out there that vlc doesn't play by default. Most of those are lossless/very high bitrate lossy formats designed to be encoded and decoded quickly for things like instant replays, so not something the average consumer would get their hands on.
My smart tv refuses to work with .mkv so it happens regularly for me.