• Julian@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    93
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

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

  • Flax@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    ·
    1 year ago

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

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      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.

    • radix@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      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

      • nodiet@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        At least on android TV, the latest release candidate for Kodi also finally properly supports DV. So I would expect the same thing to be the case for the windows version

        • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Windows and DV have a very tumultuous relationship. Actually Windows has terrible relationships with lots of proprietary codecs like dv, atmos, dts:x. So I would not be surprised at all if it still wasn’t supported on kodi on windows. I dislike Kodi enough that I won’t try, since MPV serves my purposes perfectly fine if I’m watching from my windows machine. For everything else I have appletx/roku that support DV

          • nodiet@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I’m curious, what do you dislike about Kodi? Is it just that you want a light player to use with mouse and keyboard while sitting at your desk?

            • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Yeah the UX leaves a lot to be desired, especially when there are alternatives - I really like Plex better, and am patiently waiting for Jellyfin to become more useable haha. But if I’m not at my computer, I’m using Plex which supports DV through my streaming devices, and if I am at my computer, I’ll just use MPV. But then again, that’s only for items that don’t have the hdr10 fallback. So it is honestly pretty rare.

              • nodiet@feddit.de
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Interesting. I on the other hand find the plex interface quite ugly - beside the fact that it’s not foss. Kodi has the advantage of skin support, I am using it with the embuary skin and it looks nice and does everything I want it to. I have also been using Jellyfin for the last 2 years or so, why do you say it needs to be more useable?

                • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Well the app for apple tv doesn’t even let you turn subtitles on or off. It’s honestly totally useless so I don’t use it. I like that it’s FOSS but you can’t change any playback options. Kodi also isn’t available on apple tv unless you do some hacky shit which I’m not that interested in doing since plex is working fine. I would love nothing more than to ditch plex for jellyfin. But I’ll wait until it’s a little more fully baked

    • Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      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

  • shroomato@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 year ago

    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
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          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.

    • Fenzik
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I set this up over the past few days and it’s amazing. I just need to get tdarr going as transcoding on the fly was a bit too slow to be usable. Unfortunately I’ve got no idea what I’m doing in that domain!

  • Vincent Hayes@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    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.

  • foreverandaday
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    how are you not able to run vlc? that shit runs on practically everything lol

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    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.

  • Randy_Bobandy
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Do you try to find shitty websites that upload in different codecs?

    lol no wonder everyone cried about RARBG going under, apparently no one knows that better shit exists.

    • Fenzik
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Always with these comments, never with the links…