Chad VLC

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

FFmpeg enters the chat

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Mpv is better

VLC the undisputed champ

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.

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

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

Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.

I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything