Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie
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?
It’s a scam don’t follow the instructions.
If you can’t find a different release there aren’t any legnimate releases of that title.
Nice of you for being concerned and telling. But it‘s a joke.
Oh.
And at this point it's not a scam it's a virus that they've already opened hence the fake error message.
Yes. That's terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!
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
I can! Happened all the time 20 years ago. Since then, no.
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All my homies use mpv
MPV gang rize up!
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
Yeah, if VLC can't do it, I'd bet my money nothing can
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)
Uninstall that shit and use VLC
And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.
this is the correct answer
What troglodyte doesn't use VLC nowadays?
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
It's an ".avi.exe".
yeah idk if vlc does .exe
Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files
And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with "interesting movie" written in it
me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc
VLC to the rescue!
lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?
tf is wrong witchoo boi
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.
VLC, MPV
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
Me: cycling through every media players I have installed until I get one that plays the video properly.
VLC, MPV, MPlayer, Parole, etc
VLC: I'm here to help.