Chad VLC : memes

[–] [email protected] 130 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago

Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 7 months ago (3 children)

FFmpeg enters the chat

[–] [email protected] 122 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, guess where vlc gets all that muscle...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

libvlc uses libavcodec

VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you look up the dependencies or legal notices for anything that does anything related to video, audio or maybe even images, it's very likely that it uses ffmpeg in some way.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

FFmpeg is one of libvlc's backends. A lot of stuff vlc can decode without calling ffmpeg.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Followed by MPV doing the same

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Whenever someone ask me media player for Linux I suggest MPV but for Binbows I suggest VLC. I don't know why?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

IIRC VLC on Windows uses it's own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don't need to mess around with Windows codecs.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

You don't even need to cough with the right setting on. That's just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don't submit freaked out bug reports.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

I just discovered something that VLC REALLY didn't like to play. A 4K50fps JPEG2000 YUV444 12bit lossless ~48 GB video that was only 1 minute long.

To be fair the bitrate of the video is insane at ~5700 Mbit/s. The bitrate is so insane that you should really consider using an NVME drive for playback.

MPC-HC could kinda play it but only with extreme stutter and lag. My CPU (Ryzen 9 5900x) was completely maxed out.

I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Forget playback. How was that video file recorded? How do you even store data that fast, let alone encode it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/

The only place I could find where I could kinda play the video is inside Davinci resolve, but it doesn't look how I would like it to. Probably due to the apparent lack of HDR support in Resolve on Windows (unless you have a separate TV connected to the PC somehow.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhh. It's a video decoder torture test. "If your app can play this it can play anything" sort of deal. That makes sense.

Also makes sense that VLC puked.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Vlc has hardware acceleration afaik. I think its more a case of the ffmpeg codec not supporting it yet because what the actual fuck haha

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think it's a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.

ok but why would anyone have a video like that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/

It's basically intended to test encoding and stuff like that.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

vlc can even play incomplete video files - it'll just play the parts of it, that will play.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It'll even play videos that are actively downloading

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

^ Found a fellow old school torrent user 😆

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The cool part is vlc can act like a video downloader, screen recorder, and media converter. It can also stream a video over the internet

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The swissknife of digital video.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And the dude who maintains VLC do not even make money from it, at all!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there an updated fork with security patches? Android disclosed so many media vulnerabilities in the last 5 years that I don't trust unupdated media players anymore

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is it vlc struggling or your entire PC?

I has one boss who wanted to stream 2 4K60 cctv feeds to his laptop while in the office. Needless to say his laptop struggles with a single 4K I didn't even bother setting up the second feed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Run a transcoder in "the cloud" (another PC in the room) and then it's possible

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

what are you watching that's uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I've never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can't play that lol.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I am glad both MPV and VLC exist.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don’t even know what icon is on the right

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it's Windows Media player

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Relabelled as Movies

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mpv is better

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It runs better, but VLC is much more user friendly

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

VLC the undisputed champ

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was missing Codecs in my Linux install. VLC couldn't play a single file

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Reinstall it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I actually found a file format that VLC won't play, .MJP, yanked off of our network's security camera system. It requires the security company's proprietary video player.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is news to me. What happened with VLC?

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