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[–] julianh@lemm.ee 100 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't run vlc? What kind of devices do you have?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Could be a barebones TV with a usb port? Some do have media players

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sirtwinklebottom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What devices can't run VLC? thought it was one of those things that even run on a toaster

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Some operating systems are restrictive about what APIs they give to applications.

VLC on xbox is so horrible, it doesn't deserve the VLC name, for an example.

[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mpv can render video everywhere, even inside a fucking text terminal! Use --vo=tct argument to render the video into text art. Heck, if you're using Xorg it can even render into another app window!

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/vo.rst

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

MPV deserves its own community. It's the only player on windows that can handle DV content. Though the default offering is very minimal and difficult to use. There are some awesome gui projects though

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[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I love this player, wish it was more popular. They should make the installation a bit simpler on Windows, it's a bit weird compared to most programs people download

[–] FIST_FILLET@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

(which is far superior to vlc in graphical fidelity out-of-the-box)

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it because it's a work device ? Because except if you're not the admin of your machine, VLC will run on any potato.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And even if you can't install it on a locked-down device, there's a portable version, too. Install on any removable media (from another machine, to be fair) and it will run from USB without installation.

[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So should I run it directly on the potato or run the portable version from a thumb drive inserted into the potato?

[–] fluf201playz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

the fact bros pirates on work device says alot

[–] demonicbullet@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Are you running on a work device? The USB method is only really for work devices, otherwise get vlc

[–] Neybulot@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Codec inconsistency? Try resolution inconsistency. I keep finding some that have a weird mixture of 720p and 1080p resolutions. Drives me insane.

[–] shroomato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Selfhosting an *arr stack with Plex/Jellyfin is the way.
There's also Tdarr for automatic transcoding of videos right after they get downloaded, haven't tried it yet so can't comment.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Took me years to finally get around to it and it's phenomenal.

[–] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just did it today! Not done with it, but seems nice so far

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

With radarr, it's been exciting turning on my TV and seeing a movie I added months ago has released.

Same with TV episodes, I get to experience my Plex library in a similar way to the rest of my users.

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I hope this is sarcasm.

[–] Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Did you try to install ffmpeg and run: „ffmpeg -i someFile.fileextension -c:a libmp3lame -c:v libx264 -f mp4 outFile.mp4“ to repair the file. Then you should be able to play it on every device. On windows you can install ffmpeg with winget and on linux for example with apt or on macos with brew.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I trying to think which devices can't run VLC and all I've come up with are a pager and a Blackberry. Does anyone have any idea what he's talking about?

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

presumably a toaster from the potato age

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[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Codec inconsistency is annoying yeah. You need a better tracker

[–] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'd look into buying a cheap Firesticks you can jailbreak if nothing else.

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