• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled

    VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge

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      19 hours ago

      I had it once play a video recorded on an old Motorola razr circa 2004. It was this super obscure file format, that basically only this one phone used, and was never used on any other phone.

      VLC didn’t care, played it right out of the box without any problems.

      It supports an obscure single use, 2004 video format. If aliens come to earth, VLC will be able to play their files too.