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.
Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.
Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.
FFmpeg enters the chat
Yeah, guess where vlc gets all that muscle…
I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?
libvlc uses libavcodec
VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.
If you look up the dependencies or legal notices for anything that does anything related to video, audio or maybe even images, it’s very likely that it uses ffmpeg in some way.
Interesting there isn’t more info on the team behind it.
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.
ffplay
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
The swissknife of digital video.
The every thing tool for media, now we just need a video editor XD
You are looking for kdenlive
VLC is nice, but same as SMplayer or Mplayer, it can`t download a video, but record it in streaming. I used VLC before, but VLC lacks in speed, it’s very slow compared to the mencioned.
And the dude who maintains VLC do not even make money from it, at all!
He is also an extremly annoyed french guy who has no fucks left to give. One of the maintainers is on an episode of the FOSSPOD and it was glorious
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.
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)
Nothing streams better than RealPlayer
Now that takes me back
Mpv is better
It runs better, but VLC is much more user friendly
shrugs idk. Vlc has more features. Not sure I’d call it easier.
Tell your parents to set mpv to loop a video and see how it goes
Such beings do not deserve to use computers. We’re talking about humans here, not our monkey ancestors.
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.
Vlc has hardware acceleration afaik. I think its more a case of the ffmpeg codec not supporting it yet because what the actual fuck haha
Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.
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.
JPEG2000 = not lossless
JPEG2000 supports both. That’s why I specifically said that the video is lossless
Right! Sorry, I assumed this was regular JPEG
Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol
