Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.
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Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.
FFmpeg enters the chat
Yeah, guess where vlc gets all that muscle...
Followed by MPV doing the same
Whenever someone ask me media player for Linux I suggest MPV but for Binbows I suggest VLC. I don't know why?
IIRC VLC on Windows uses it's own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don't need to mess around with Windows codecs.
I'm in the MPC-HC gang on Windows. Just so much more practical than other players. The main selling point was that full-screen the controls go away once you move the cursor off them, it was amazing. And no waiting for subs to be processed like VLC had to back then, never turned back so don't know if that is still a thing.
BE > HC
the main selling point of mpchc is madvr. there's basically no other competitors that utilize the GPU to make the media your watching better on the same level as madvr.
I do the same because VLC has an installer on Windows while MPV you have to manually extract from a compressed folder and then run the install script from command line
My download came with a .bat executable
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ffplay
I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.
You don't even need to cough with the right setting on. That's just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don't submit freaked out bug reports.
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.
Forget playback. How was that video file recorded? How do you even store data that fast, let alone encode it?
You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/
The only place I could find where I could kinda play the video is inside Davinci resolve, but it doesn't look how I would like it to. Probably due to the apparent lack of HDR support in Resolve on Windows (unless you have a separate TV connected to the PC somehow.
Ohhhhhh. It's a video decoder torture test. "If your app can play this it can play anything" sort of deal. That makes sense.
Also makes sense that VLC puked.
I think it's more of a test for encoding, not sure if you are really supposed to try and play it in an app.
1 Terrabyte RAM with a 64GB RAM Drive perhaps?
I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
ok but why would anyone have a video like that
You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/
It's basically intended to test encoding and stuff like that.
Maybe some kind of super slow motion high resolution type thing?
Yeah I could definitely see this for slo-mo and data recording in an actual laboratory setting that requires it to be as accurate as humanly possible. Idk if this is a standard though I'm not a scientist.
but if you're gonna watch it in slow motion anyways then why isn't it saved as a slow video that is much longer?
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JPEG2000 = not lossless
JPEG2000 supports both. That's why I specifically said that the video is lossless
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VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.
I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.
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
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vlc can even play incomplete video files - it'll just play the parts of it, that will play.
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)
I am glad both MPV and VLC exist.
I switched to MPV recently for the same reasons. If it had support for playing disc media it would be the absolute king of video players imo.
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I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.
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.
what do you see from running binwalk on one of these files?
I don't know what that is - I'll have to look into it on Monday.
Very high level: it's a program to quickly find files within files and it runs on pretty much any OS that exists
I've moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.
This is news to me. What happened with VLC?
I don't know what they mean, but to me it didn't become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.
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VLC the undisputed champ
I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything
Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.
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