And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.
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I forgot that VLC wasn't standard. ๐ I looked at the other icon and thought "wait what's that?"
I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they've introduced since. It seems like if you make OS's you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove
TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.
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I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I'm having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player...
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To watch this new type of hvec media you need this free codec.
Wait did we say free i mean
~~There is a paid version next to the free one.~~
~~You can pay here, that other one is for retail and industry please dont use it, only use the paid one.~~
Your hardware doesn't support the free codec according to the error message we gave it. Hand over your money to install this identical approved one please.
I absolutely love VLC
Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn't know what software the second icon was supposed to be.
I thought it was mpv first
Really? The classic hombre sunset graphic didn't clearly say this is a Microsoft Windows product? /s
Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.
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VLC is so much better than the solution I was using before it. Windows Media Player Classic with the Mega Codec Pack downloaded from a super shady warez website.
VLC has always just worked. Never had to fuck with settings or download extra shit. Dealing with codecs and different formats was such a pain in the ass until VLC came along.
Yeah, I remember everyone recommending K-Lite codec pack. But it didn't work for me, so I used the Combined Community Codec Pack.
For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can't play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.
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If I'm not mistaken the people behind Videolan also did x264 which is a pretty major library used to encode h.264.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264
It's a lesser known project from videolan but with a rather broad use online.
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Not Media Player, but Windows Movie and TV Player plays video files clearer with better hue and color than any other player paid or open source, and I've tried them all. You can't adjust anything in it, if the subtitles are off you're fucked and gotta go back to VLC, but the look of the default video processing in the WMT app is hands down the best I've ever seen. I'd guess out of all the different types of codecs there are about .5% that aren't compatible with it, but it's my app of choice.
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mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.
I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.
VLC is okay..but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.
Let me recommend Strawberry Music Player. It is multi-platform, open source, has a nice library organization system and links to Musicbrainz for identification.
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I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player ๐
If it's not skinnable what's even the point, right? I miss those neat visualizations. :D
Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away
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remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.
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