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.

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      I always use VLC so I thought the meme was that it was one of those fake “codec not supported, go to this sketchy website” videos

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      11 months ago

      I’ve only had this problem playing the video on TV directly. Like smart TV. Can I put VLC on there?

      I use jellyfin to do transcoding, but very occasionally it exhibits issues still.

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        11 months ago

        Something I don’t see a lot of people do but totally should is get a really long HDMI cable and snake it around the room. You can then hook up a laptop or hell even your desktop directly to the TV. Think my cable is around 20 feet and I got it off Amazon for dirt cheap. Works wonders when I want to watch something on Plex (a lot of smart TV’s have trouble with Plex)

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          11 months ago

          This! 10meter hdmi cable came in really handy in my last apartment for connecting pc to tv while having the cable completely hidden all thr time. Now I would need like 20m cable and I would have to drill it trough walls. Just laptop and chromecast now. It’s a bit sad that I cant just open any game on my tv without carrying the pc from another room

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      11 months ago

      lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.

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      11 months ago

      Beat me to it. I haven’t had an unsupported file error in the decade I’ve been using VLC. Maybe one time I had to download something to support a rare file type