ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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May 6, 2022 10:27 PM
ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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VastMajorityRule
NotAHugeSpider
MorallyOpposedToViolets
Whip the llamas ass!
kibje
Wrong application, that is Winamp
Jopler420
VLC is still the awesomist
MasterPrime
It really isn't. You're just used to it. It was great when there were a million different ways to encode something. Now it's just bloatware.
enteryourusername
Not to mention their support guys on the forums. When someone identifies a bug they get it fixed asap.
ChromeIsRubbish
I wish they'd get the bugs "fixed" in Android VLC. It's still buggy as hell and videos freeze a lot. Still can't use seek without freezing.
rdmage11
It's about the cones.
AutomaticSlims
Beat me to it.
doodlydoofus
Before anyone says anything, YOU would've taken the deal, you know you would. That's why this man is a hero.
LarvaLamp
Heck, I'll take his deal for him!
badbmc
Ok, if he refused tens of millions of dollars, the least I can do is give him one upvote that doesn't cost me anything.
funkystay
You can also donate: https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
badbmc
And never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could.
XplodingRibcage
Not all heros wear capes they sometimes swan about in traffic cones ....fucking legend
notimelikethepast
Fucking legend!
Ishouldsleep
Praise him, what a great guy!
zorlonjones
turomar
I still use a script I made that opens 9 instances of vlc in equal-size windows in a 3x3 grid across my display for um things.
CaptnRobAnybody
NotAHugeSpider
toronim
Fun fact, he did École Centrale Paris, and during the first week (integration), one of the task was to grab these cones
EarthTourist
VLC is the shit. Has been for years. Ta
BamboozledU
SideEffectsOfJuice
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPCHC). Never looked back. Even before, VLC wasn't my shit tbh.
getmeoutofthecity
For like......a decade. Or more?
ManByTechnicality
It's been years since I've had a desktop (was poor) and recently got one (stopped being poor), is VLC still good?
TsubakiTragic
try MPV... simpler than VLC imo, but both are great players. I'm on a linux desktop, your mileage yadda yadda.
Fryfryfryfry
Still the best, I mean it's hard to improve upon perfection
Meeces
Depends on how you define good. It is a little slow these days, but otherwise still solid
ManByTechnicality
1) Can I watch DVDs that legally own and other video files that I totally legally own 2) will it give my computer a virus
pyaremohan
Yes
houpbajoup
wizzard
devo27
He does look a bit Rincewind-y
igglebotato
Also, judging by the version names, a fan of Sir Terry Pratchett.
mathknight
Yer a hazard, Harry.
TsubakiTragic
Jean-Baptiste Kempf did/does good work.
DonL9
It's been my go-to media player on every platform I use.
KillerKitten45
If only imgur could be more like him....
oldguyexlurker
Thank you Jean-Baptiste! I appreciate you!
SoPhoKingWong
Thumbs up if you see that message every time u open VLC but hit cancel never reading it. And your videos still work
rambleramblramble
hitdog42
And the versions are named after Discworld characters, so he's a god in my book
userfriendly19777
crackblind
Jonmbram
What year? Every year. GET OUT.
SkycladNightStroller
How old are you
blainetog
Every year!
Crispy4Skin
Its all for the greater good
JustSomeEnglishGuy
The greater good.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Crusty Jugglers
7oidberg
The greater good.
AndThenThereWereSquirrels
The greater good.
certainlynotaserialkiller
The greater good
KommSusserTod
WOULD YOU SHUT UP?!
crackblind
userfriendly19777
The greater good.
THESHOUTINGTURTLE
THE GREATER GOOD
mrbadxampl
shut it!
TheWinged7
The grater good
Crowlands
My second favourite movie of all time.
LookYouStupidBastard
What's your first? (I ask because this is my first favorite.) Is it a comedy or drama?
Crowlands
It's Scott Pilgrim VS the world. Which is mostly an action-comedy, with some drama.
Crowlands
Same director. I'm a big fan of Edgar Wright.
LookYouStupidBastard
Fantastic movie! Big fan of Wright here.
casketbase
Your first is Shaun of the Dead
Crowlands
My Third is Shaun of the Dead. My first is Scott Pilgrim. I'm a big fan of Edgar Wright.
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WhiteCollarOfficeJobs
I actually don't even know if this shot is in the movie because I've only seen clips, but judging by the other quotes, Hot Fuzz.
Player2HazEnteredTheGame
Zeterai
It's Hot Fuzz. You have almost certainly seen it quoted or referenced before, it's got a lot of very memetic lines.
hellboundcanuck
Yarrrp
speedfreakz17
DontcallmeLen
The man who single handed killed off QuickTime, RealPlayer and all the other sketchy AF video apps.
BandannaNinja
Legend.
90sWereGold
I didn't realize they were even gone. I can't keep up on what media things to be using. I miss my simple and amazing windows media player
CangodCreateAStoneItCannotLift
Patchmypc home edition, they can install it for you
sway073
The only one I use along with VLC is MPC, because it has a really nice in-built subtitle library for...'alternatively sourced' movies.
IHateApostrophes
Holy shit, I entirely forgot about QuickTime and realplayer until just now. I fucking hated QuickTime.
CasualBoulder
So. Fucking. Slow. I wish I understood why VLC works instantly and QT just didn't.
Jbelkin
Your co,outer is slow
Eldibs
RealPlayer killed itself by becoming bloated unusable awfulness.
circlebreaker
Agreed. It was a pale shadow of its former glory by the time it was kicked into its ignoble software grave.
FlatPlutoSociety
QuickTime and Windows MP were frustrating, but overall fine. RealPlayer should be staked through the heart, burned, salted, and buried.
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
DV for calling them "fine". They were not.
onlyhalfghost
and RealPlayer's devs should be flayed, salted, and buried. Alive.
ZeroZeta
No, they should be... *buffering*
CrispBadger
It makes me mad just thinking about how annoying real player was.
thri1
I hated Realplayer on the basis that the only version of files I could find were 15 megabytes for a 21 minute video; always garbage quality.
muchLongerUsername
unpopular take: realplayer did amazing things with very limited resources. you could *sorta* stream video on 56k. that's kinda awesome.
Atomic2
Before VLC, we had to download and install codecs. You remember this shit? You'd download a movie, hope its not a virus, then find out >>
risqueorindecent
Jeebus. Thanks for the reminder. I HATED THAT SHIT! Basically microtransactionalizing shit.
MajorTom0101
I don't: thanks VLC.
volock
Add bonus points it's the only secure flash file player I know.
giraffinator
Yep, never fun
Zephronias
Oh my god, you're giving me flashbacks.
gunnexx
CCCP and Media Player Classic was the standard for me
PutItInNeutral
I used to use the CCCP codec pack. That pretty much covered everything.
BubblesTheFish
Calm down grandpa. Let's get you back in the house.
pumper
Still need codecs for MXPlayer, which is, for whatever insane reason, more popular than VLC on mobile.
defaultbunny
Omg...I'd forgotten! It was terrible!
Grinch01
I used the Windows medai player calssic for a long time it was nearly as good as vlc but at sometime vlc had won
HeadJamistan
K-lite codec pack.
LucidAftermath
I still use the mega codec pack, update it twice a year. Use it with Media Player Classic (MPC).
HeadJamistan
I use mpc-hc
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
These days, you have to buy the codecs.
snova595
K-lite media pack mega…. *shudders*
cluelesscookie
K-lite codec pack
reineseele
quicktimeplayer etc. what a cancer that was for some file formats. yeah. the only thing i need is mpc & winamp v2.95 works like a charm.
thri1
Quicktime, that program honestly worked pretty well-- Oh, fuck I downloaded an .avi file... Fucking fuck.
kickrole
Being in art school in the late 90s, it sucked... Felt like we had new formats weekly -> Xvid, Divx, real player, avi, mov, m2u, mpeg-2.
VaultGirl69
I donate to VLC and Wikipedia every few years. Been around since the Internet took off. Had good motives and still do. Excellence.
mrbellek
Wikipedia has more than enough resources though. No need for donations.
VaultGirl69
I still do it because I use it. And because they operate better the most.
Atomic2
where do the resources come from?
coronakilla
One time i downloaded some music and there was a surprise porn picture in the zip file. Ahhh, 90s treasure
JeRMP
You must be at least 40 years old
LarvaLamp
And?
Atomic2
34...
JustSomeEnglishGuy
31...
OhNoDontTouch
I'm not even 30 and had to deal with that crap. VLC only just started in 2001
TylerDurden85
Blu-Ray had to go ruin the fun for a while with all their "encryption" hoohaa. JUST A WHILE though...ARRR!
Snooj
Don't say that fucking word in this house.
ToastedEggSandwich
"Please update Shockwave Media Player!"
Juggernut
Shockwave, nooooooo!
YoWilykat
Remember when Windows sold off Indeo codec and stopped including with Windows? Video that worked before suddenly wouldn't work!
Fuckweasel
Anyone else here remember getting vids/apps from usenet in like, 60 different parts, having to find the index zip and then recompile 1/2
Fuckweasel
the file, only to find out it's missing a single piece and you can't find it anywhere... 2/2
ProppaGanda
Warez. Downloaded mass effect like that only to find out that one archive was corrupted and there was no healthy one on the interwebs
Fuckweasel
Exactly that. I know your pain all too well.
Morbidly0btuse
The pain of newsgroups
Fuckweasel
Indeed. Programs out there now run in the browser & automate the entire process and will auto-maintain your media library. Spoiled bastards.
fraggsta
Newsgroups are still used for file downloading, but now there are programs that automate downloading all the parts and combining them.
Tattooedpariah
Before VLC i used Irfanview32...
DevinCastellucci
Media Player Classic and the CCCP
abrazenfool
Still do, for images
dribblingviking
Same. Great for batch renaming and resizing, too
VictusVonGuyver
Same. Especially animated gif files because Microsoft phot viewer removed the future unless you bought it's high end os.
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj2
Set gifs to open with your browser. IE is built in. Also, "high end" Windows isn't any different AFAIK.
VictusVonGuyver
That's no good I like to go through a folder. Opening a dozen tabs is worthless to me.
Atomic2
you don't have the codec for it and then you had to go and try to find the right one, and again pray it wasn't a virus. Wild times man. //
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Atomic2
I was a K-lite man myself
Rogerwilco1974
K-Lite crew represent!
NorthernHalibut
Combined Community Codec Pack to the rescue!
SvarvSven
Did FFMpeg develop due to VLC or did just grow a lot thanks to VLC, I wonder..
losersmanual
I still download K-Lite, because I prefer MPC over VLC.
VaultGirl69
And the OG free audio/video capturing, editing, and recoding device. Can make playable DVD's. Still great. No ads and didn't sell your data.
syniztah
K-Lite Codec pack ftw.
AlanRodriguezSz
Or a different movie, or the 60s version haha
melwil
I got a tip about vlc in 2003, from the guy that had LotR:RotK hookups. Man oh man, never looked back.
megodk
Seriously, VLC is one of the immediate "must have" downloads whenever I set up a fresh OS install
AyrA
Now there's the k-lite codec pack that does this. Makes windows media player outperform VLC by miles. I use it with media player classic.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Dude CCCP! Everyone knew that shit. MPC is still a goto
PimpinKen
I use both VLC and MPC. Both have their ups and downs.
Eldibs
K-Lite or CCCP codec packs. Basically every codec known to man, updated regularly, easily downloaded and installed.
experiencemike
How dare you bring these memories back to the forefront of m brain. I had them repressed!
SuicidalBallsack
i kinda miss that feeling of accomplishment when you get the movie file and codecs right first time.
Mydogatemycomments
For non english speaker we had the journey in search of the subtitles...
SuicidalBallsack
Subscene! i still use subscene till this day. i have to have subtitles on everything i watch, just cuz.
BijouGreenBirdie
What (sometimes) glorious days, indeed.
TheDrunkenWrench
Do note cite the old magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.
LarvaLamp
And then, if... IF you got it to play, it looked like you were watching it through frosted glass and listening to it on a telephone.
LarvaLamp
All twelve seconds of it!
Fuckweasel
CCCP and DivX codec packs. If with those two installed I couldn't play it, then I wasn't rolling the dice on getting computer herpes.
harpti
Spoiler alert. It’s a virus.
Atomic2
I think I got more viruses from fake codec packs than from sketchy downloads.
ProppaGanda
MPC-HC
JockoV
I remember downloading the K-Light Codec Pack. It was supposed to contain all the most common codecs so you should be able to play anything.
Atomic2
Yup, thank god for that one.
unc0nnected
Still keep k-lite installed and updated to this day
JockoV
Atomic2
but why?
GuestChrist
I remember. VLC said it would play virtually any file. And it did!
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EnderSwe
No, not any format. Had to use CCCP (codec pack) the first years to play some formats.
SkycladNightStroller
Pioneer days
TheSomethingSomethingGenericReplyGuy
I've never seen myself that way but... Indeed we were.
SkycladNightStroller
Hindsight is weird
schlockchurch
Divx ... Xvid ... H.264 ... Matroska ... Ugh.
SneakerPumpernickel
Divx now there's a name I havnt heard in a long time
schlockchurch
And grateful for it, amiright? ?
fightfightfightlosewinfight
DivX was pretty revolutionary in terms of size vs quality. I remember thinking, "How... how is this fitting on my computer." (2000ish?)
schlockchurch
I was very grateful for it. But I don't miss dealing with codecs one bit!
Fuckweasel
Indeed. It was like, "Download complete." The fuck it is. It can't be, not with that small a file size. Yet, it was.
schlockchurch
And passable quality? Mmm, yes please.
FullDisclosure
250mb a movie? Like wtf is this sorcery