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    • Octopus1348@lemy.lol
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      10 months ago

      And if you want to play on a TV that doesn’t support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.

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        10 months 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.

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          10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      VLC works most of the time. That said some videos VLC can’t seem to decode correctly - I never get VLC complaining about unsupported file formats, but I do get weird artifacts and glitched rendering when I try to play certain ones.

      It’s then that I usually try MPV or MPlayer. One of those will usually play the video correctly.