Apple devices and browsers have been playing .web* files for a while now. Still not a good format. They don’t offer anything over existing and more widely adopted formats beyond crushing a file to death to save a little space (something that can easily be done to existing formats anyways).
I did! I see it on my students' screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.
Yeah I switch to MPV maybe a decade ago from VLC. I just like the outward simplicity. It can do everything but it doesn bother showing you unless you ask, whereas VLC is like an all you can eat buffet, kind of overwhelming for day to day use.
I still use VLC occasionally when I want to do something funky and don't want to bother digging into how to do it with MPV for a one off.
One of the achievements of humanity, along with Wikipedia, etc.
A monument how individuals can resist enshitification without prioritising financial gain over other humans.
MPV is also high-quality software, tends to handle streams much better than VLC for me. It's amazing the amount of FOSS software that has been painstakingly maintained for years, that we mostly take for granted.
I always thought this was more of a Windows thing as VLC relies on libffmpeg of which it does ship a copy there. On Linux, it links against the system version, which all other programs have access to as well, hence if VLC can play it, chances are the others can do so too. I basically never use it because I dislike the interface, MPV I find much more pleasant
I've been using VLC for well over a decade now, but for some reason, VLC likes to shift the pitch down a little and up again every now and then and I don't know why. Makes listening to music a little annoying.
Sometimes. I've learned through the course of suffering this life that vlc causes more problems than it solves multiple times. Mpv for the true hero. All of them use the same underlying libraries anyway.
I’ve been using VLC since forever but I switched to PotPlayer recently since I’ve been having issues with VLC, namely artifacts and lag after play/pausing.
Man, I love VLC but I just have so much trouble with it on Endeavour (Arch). I don't use it often enough to troubleshoot it and instead just use either Haruna or MPV.
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VLC doesn't care. I dropped a 3d model on it by accident and it started 3d printing it. I don't even have a 3d printer
Blender can turn a video into a 3D model does that count?
How they view iPhone users who can't play a fucking .webm in 2025
Apple devices and browsers have been playing .web* files for a while now. Still not a good format. They don’t offer anything over existing and more widely adopted formats beyond crushing a file to death to save a little space (something that can easily be done to existing formats anyways).
Why can't iPhone users watch my webm videos I send through Signal?
*who forgot to install the VLC app
I don't miss 2021, why are you bringing that shit year up?
I was team mpc until about 2006, now I'm team mpv.
I still can't remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.
Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin' around all these years.
Did you know that the VLC icon wears a Santa hat around Christmastime? Maybe that will change your mind.
I did! I see it on my students' screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.
Yeah I switch to MPV maybe a decade ago from VLC. I just like the outward simplicity. It can do everything but it doesn bother showing you unless you ask, whereas VLC is like an all you can eat buffet, kind of overwhelming for day to day use.
I still use VLC occasionally when I want to do something funky and don't want to bother digging into how to do it with MPV for a one off.
Same. Love the simplicity.
I watch media mostly on my TV anyway, via Plex, so there's no reason to have some full fledged media solution on my PC.
Is there any reason for me to ditch MPC and go MPV, or is it just preferences?
I don't know. I use mpv because I switched to Linux in 2006 and I'm used to it now.
One of the achievements of humanity, along with Wikipedia, etc.
A monument how individuals can resist enshitification without prioritising financial gain over other humans.
VLC's gonna be up there with
ffmpegandyt-dlpMPV is also high-quality software, tends to handle streams much better than VLC for me. It's amazing the amount of FOSS software that has been painstakingly maintained for years, that we mostly take for granted.
mpv use ffmpeg as backend
I actually know that the creators of vlc and ffmpeg do hang out on occasion.
That is true but I don't think they've ever solved the issue it has with taking longer and longer to load each time. Love VLC though ❤️
Can confirm, I find myself looking for a solution every few weeks.
I have too many scripts for mpv making my life easier to ever consider switching back to VLC. Also, shaders and customizations!
I always thought this was more of a Windows thing as VLC relies on libffmpeg of which it does ship a copy there. On Linux, it links against the system version, which all other programs have access to as well, hence if VLC can play it, chances are the others can do so too. I basically never use it because I dislike the interface, MPV I find much more pleasant
Can I tell you guys about the woes of downloading vlc or mpv from the Fedora repos and not being able to play back HEVC due to licencing?
Grab it from FlatHub or RPMFusion instead, if you want that...
but still, pausing by a leftclick requires a plugin and a change in settings - this is crazy, but I just know I have to do it on a new machine
Last I checked (and ditched VLC because of this) it doesn't properly support HDR. Any change on that side of things?
Apparently since 3.0.0 it has supported HDR and 10 bit colour!
Nice, I don't enjoy using codec packs so I'll reinstall lol
I've been using VLC for well over a decade now, but for some reason, VLC likes to shift the pitch down a little and up again every now and then and I don't know why. Makes listening to music a little annoying.
I’ve never experienced that. Is it always the same file(s) at the same time(s)?
Nah, it's random. Fixed in newest version though. Might be the nightly? Not sure.
I miss gnome-mplayer
Sometimes. I've learned through the course of suffering this life that vlc causes more problems than it solves multiple times. Mpv for the true hero. All of them use the same underlying libraries anyway.
I’ve been using VLC since forever but I switched to PotPlayer recently since I’ve been having issues with VLC, namely artifacts and lag after play/pausing.
Pot player's a gem. I have no idea how it's free
Man, I love VLC but I just have so much trouble with it on Endeavour (Arch). I don't use it often enough to troubleshoot it and instead just use either Haruna or MPV.