Playing an unsupported file
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.
Timbo303, 
Torrenting in a nutshell! It can give out same error sometimes for incomplete file depending on the player used.
gornius, Am I too 1Gb/s fiber connected to understand that?
unreasonabro, (edited ) lmfao who has this problem, your great grandma?
tf is wrong witchoo boi
frippa, 
VLC, MPV
cupcakezealot, 
me: opens vlc. play it anyway, idc
Dadifer, VLC
normalexit, 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.
Potatos_are_not_friends, Comments like this reminded me of how dark of a world it used to be.
stom, 
I still install klite out of habit.
YoShipsWalksHere, Why is it a big deal? 2.5Gb takes like 20-30 seconds to download
technohacker, 
Bold of you to assume internet access is great everywhere
ExperimentalGuy, I forget that some people have crazy fast internet. Mine downloads 2.5gb in like 20 minutes.
MrFunnyMoustache, Until not that long ago, my average speed was less than 1 Mbps because of insufficient infrastructure in the area.
PraiseTheSoup, With speeds like that why haven’t you downloaded a functioning brain yet?
Faresh, 2.5 GB in 30 seconds is 83 MB/s.
PraiseTheSoup, Or about 660 Mb/s, which is how we typically see download speeds written.
variants, Sounds a bit small for a movie
Omega_Haxors, No big deal, just download the codices.
Steve, Uninstall that shit and use VLC
Magnetar, VLC could play a polaroid image of the Voyager records.
comrade_pibb, 
this is the correct answer
Octopus1348, 
And if you want to play on a TV that doesn’t support the format, convert it with FFMpeg.
kuberoot, 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.
deranger, MPC-HC also a very good choice
Land_Strider, (edited ) Installing MPC-HC during K-Lite Code pack as my primary media player has taken place of VLC for me this last year. I have been using VLC as music player only with some Winamp-like no-viewport UI lately.
deranger, Been using k-lite codec pack since the Kazaa days, very good stuff. MPC-HC with madVR looks excellent.
PraiseTheSoup, Been using both MPC-HC and VLC for years now. Between the two of them there is no file that you cannot play.
milkytoast, 
where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I've only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think
rotopenguin, 
It’s an “.avi.exe”.
milkytoast, yeah idk if vlc does .exe
rotopenguin, Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files
milkytoast, I'm sure there's a way
ReakDuck, Hold my beer
vox, (edited ) 
i actually accidentally made all exe files open in Windows Media Center on a family pc as a kid.
basically the system had to be reinstalled.
YoorWeb, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Turun, Mp4 and mkv are container formats. Your comment is somewhat equivalent to “where are you guys getting text files that can’t be displayed, I’ve only ever seen zip files”.
The codec in the container is what needs to be played, and can fail to render correctly.
Scary_le_Poo, 
What troglodyte doesn’t use VLC nowadays?
taanegl, (edited ) mpv enjoyers
Dumbkid, 
Am I in the wrong for using mpc-hc?
Album, 
It’s bad at mpeg-ts/HLS but it you don’t use that then it’s good
sizing743, People with automated Sonarr/Plex setups probably. Haven’t had to use VLC since like 2009
Samsy, Exactly, but better use jellyfin.
UndercoverUlrikHD, 
mpv is more effective. Worse user interface though
Zerush, 
I use the SMplayer, it plays and streams almost everything (Mplayer engine, apart also works with mpv).
haroldstork, mpv my beloved
Aaroncvx, (edited ) VLC-heads in this thread are a decade behind
vic_rattlehead, We’re streets ahead.
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