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.
If vlc cant open it you have found something truly odd
The file extension is exe, am I doing something wrong?
Have you tried installing it as system admin? Make sure to check all boxes and click next as well.
Yes. That’s terribly unsafe of you. Use a Mac and only open up video files with a .app file extension, silly!
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
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.
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)
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
If it’s Android tv then yes, there is a VLC version for that.
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lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.
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
VLC
lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?
tf is wrong witchoo boi
This reminded me of having to install a codec pack like klite or cccp as one of the first things on a fresh install. I’m glad that isn’t a thing anymore.
Comments like this reminded me of how dark of a world it used to be.
I still install klite out of habit.
And then you have mpv that will play anything ever, even a .txt with “interesting movie” written in it
VLC, MPV
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.
Eh, my internet is 1gbps, I can just download something else
Am I too 1Gb/s fiber connected to understand that?
No big deal, just download the codices.
