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Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie

Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 102 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Uninstall that shit and use VLC

[–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And if you want to play on a TV that doesn't support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I've had good experience using mkvtoolnix to mux video into an mkv with subtitles included. Not sure if mkv support is widespread, but as janky as the TV was with other formats, mkv worked great every time.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

this is the correct answer

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

VLC could play a polaroid image of the Voyager records.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

VLC works most of the time. That said some videos VLC can't seem to decode correctly - I never get VLC complaining about unsupported file formats, but I do get weird artifacts and glitched rendering when I try to play certain ones.

It's then that I usually try MPV or MPlayer. One of those will usually play the video correctly.