And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”why is that valuable though
Because you can listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?
Who are you?
I am someone who likes to listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card.
I have a script for this! I took the commands from somewhere, I just put them into a script. https://codeberg.org/JetpackJackson/arch-dotfiles/src/branch/main/shared/scripts/kernel-songs
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Why are you so angry lol? Most of your post history is just you yelling at random people on the internet. It’s weird.
aplaydoesn’t bitch about encodings or signatures or checksums or something not looking like a media file. If you do something stupid (like pipe an executable file into it), it won’t tell you to go back to the child-safe play pen, it will pass the data to ALSA and do its best to render it as sound.The Windows mind can’t comprehend the importance of the freedom to fuck around. But, looking at your comment history, you’re more of a professional contrarian and won’t even try to do that.
why is it not
that’s not an answer :/
You now they’re just being silly, right?
Know*
Seriously?
Mah poor fat fingers
That’s what the meme is praising VLC for
VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.
Wish we could start again with a new internet.
It’s because Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a GOAT and said “non” to fuck-you amounts of money to sell out VLC.
I don’t know if I’ve had the strength to say no to that much money and obviously, that kind of cash has corrupted all but a few bastions of what makes the Internet an awesome place.
Shoutout to Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame and all those supporting the lists it depends on. Some many adblockers sold out (including the original uBlock) but he champions on making the Internet a remarkably better place when used. Dude even refuses donations (says list maintainers deserve it more).
Best way to reward them would be to be like them. I’m sure they too long for world where people act with integrity
So serious question, why not take the money, become ultra rich, then immediately start a nonprofit to recreate VLC Origin
He gets to be rightfully rich, and he funds and protects a free project.
In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user’s machines.
I guess he just didn’t want to become attached to junkware being installed on people’s machines.
I don’t have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?
I would imagine whoever bought it would write a clause to say he can’t create anything similar in future.
Because people would immediately call him a sell out. And because it then would be the property of whatever company, and he could be tied legally from recreating it.
I hadn’t thought of it in these terms. Sometimes, someone says something profoundly true and you just have to stop and reckon with it. Fuck RealPlayer and all the other crap (RealPlayer may have been the first (popular) app to deliberately trick people into enabling stuff (hidden checkboxes)). What if capitalism hadn’t happened to the internet.
Thank you.
Everything is a .wav, you just lack the frequency hearing range.
Back when /dev/dsp existed, you could pipe any data to it, and it’d treat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like… well, also like they’re supposed to, i guess.
If something doesn’t open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
Just because VLC plays a file doesn’t mean that the file isn’t corrupted.
If something doesn’t open in VLC…then you should probably try it in Media Player Classic, and if that doesn’t work then the file is totally fucked.
Or mpv, the real chad.
If something doesn’t open in VLC your OS is probably not set to open that file type in VLC
I’ve had corrupted files play in VLC.
After a while it crashed VLC because of the corruption, but reopening the file and skipping pas the corruption worked, lol.
Removed by mod
I, too, would like to know when will you Brazilians stop letting Bolsonaro get away with using Windows Media Player?
What would this sound like played in aplay?
What the fuck did you just say about me, you little shit? I’ll have you know that I…
sir this is a Wendy’s drive thru
Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.
Got any fun clips to share?
I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn’t the best, this is a CD rip because I’ve long since lost the original files, but since it’s experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn’t hurt much I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance
I used to do this with audacity. It’s fun to open an image, and apply some audio filters to it, then export it. Makes for some interesting photo fuckery results.
Oh, I didn’t know audacity would do it. Well I know how I’m wasting time at work the rest of this week…
I used to write dark ambient and noise records as a hobby. I got some of my best samples from that method.
I cant remember the command now, but there was one on linux which let you play anything, I remember /usr/bin/ls sounded nice.
aplay is pretty decent
I definitely have pointed it at /dev/random
Windows media asks you to pay Microsoft for a decoding license if you try to play an HDR video.
I think it does it for hvec too
Looks like your right, included by default:
MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, VC-1, Windows Media Video (WMV), DV, VP8, Motion JPEG
Then they have add-ons in the store, the HEVC I believe said was a dollar to use on 10 devices with that account. that’s terrible
I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they’ve introduced since. It seems like if you make OS’s you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove
TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.Very true, unfortunately if something makes money other companies will line up to copycat even if the real product is licensing they don’t have full access to.
I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I’m having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player…
Fucking real player😩
Hold on, I need about 12 minutes to render your video and even then it’s going to be at postage stamp sized resolution and sound like someone stuck a brick in a blender.
Oh no, real player has plucked a chord in me I’ve long forgotten about too lol.
Has it finally finished buffering enough for you to hear that chord?
Not yet, I had to start over because I clicked a new spot in the video before it loaded, and that is a mortal sin.
It works better because everything else is geared towards maximum monetization to the direct detriment of the user and the UX. Those alternatives suck simply because “working better” on its own is financially worthless to those selling this shit.
iTunes 1.0 was amazing. It didn’t turn to shit until they tried to make it an everything-app.
To watch this new type of hvec media you need this free codec.
Wait did we say free i mean
There is a paid version next to the free one.You can pay here, that other one is for retail and industry please dont use it, only use the paid one.Your hardware doesn’t support the free codec according to the error message we gave it. Hand over your money to install this identical approved one please.
That’s the logo for a multi-billion dollar corporation’s built-in media player for their flagship OS? It looks like one of my side projects.
That logo paid for some kids house.
I absolutely love VLC
mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they’re not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.
Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn’t know what software the second icon was supposed to be.
Really? The classic hombre sunset graphic didn’t clearly say this is a Microsoft Windows product? /s
VLC is so much better than the solution I was using before it. Windows Media Player Classic with the Mega Codec Pack downloaded from a super shady warez website.
VLC has always just worked. Never had to fuck with settings or download extra shit. Dealing with codecs and different formats was such a pain in the ass until VLC came along.
Yeah, I remember everyone recommending K-Lite codec pack. But it didn’t work for me, so I used the Combined Community Codec Pack.
I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files
And it stutters when playing .ts files.
Typescript?
DVD
Forget React, all my homies use VLC+TS.
For me i tried playing a Bad apple video in 4K it struggled
4k gif? Oh please, be serious.
Nah video but thanks for reminding me to edit my comment
I love gif files
For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can’t play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.
VLC is the only android app I’ve found that still supports tracker MODs, absolutely required for my music listening.
