Chad VLC

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?
- 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?
- 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.
- My only regret is that I have but one vote to give this amazing post. Bless you, friend, a real treat.

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.
  
  1 Terrabyte RAM with a 64GB RAM Drive perhaps?
- 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.
  
  Haha, that's fair 😂
- 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?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package
  
  Deleted by creator.
- JPEG2000 = not lossless
  
  JPEG2000 supports both. That's why I specifically said that the video is lossless
  https://jpeg.org/jpeg2000/
- Where can I try this
  
  Here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/
  I downloaded "natural complexity" or something like that. Unfortunately FTP downloads are limited to 100 Mbit/s so downloads can take a while. Imo they should make a torrent.

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.

vlc can even play incomplete video files - it'll just play the parts of it, that will play.
- It'll even play videos that are actively downloading
  
  ^ Found a fellow old school torrent user 😆

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
- VLC: it can do anything media related. I wish iTunes can do this without being so bloated.
- 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.
  
  The trick is you get the stream url from vlc, then load it up in a browser to download it fully.

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

Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
- Is there an updated fork with security patches? Android disclosed so many media vulnerabilities in the last 5 years that I don't trust unupdated media players anymore
  
  I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:
  https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
  MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.
- Same, I'd take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC's themes are janky and weird-looking.
- Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol

I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.
- Is it vlc struggling or your entire PC?
  I has one boss who wanted to stream 2 4K60 cctv feeds to his laptop while in the office. Needless to say his laptop struggles with a single 4K I didn't even bother setting up the second feed.
  
  Run a transcoder in "the cloud" (another PC in the room) and then it's possible
  
  Other video players work fine. My PC is fairly new.
- what are you watching that's uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I've never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can't play that lol.
  
  Yeah, videos from my phone. Most things aren't an issue.

I don’t even know what icon is on the right
- I think it's Windows Media player
  
  Relabelled as Movies
- MPC: All my homies hate wmp.

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.
  
  It has support for it tho.
- 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.

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.
- 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.

I was missing Codecs in my Linux install. VLC couldn't play a single file
- Reinstall it.
- Try the flatpak, it should come with all the codecs

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.

Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.

I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything