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And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

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[–] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea that was 98/ME era right? The one with the crazy skins lmao

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)

and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.

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[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that's more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌

(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Since the time of internet I've used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years--pushing the 'app' shit instead.

on win11, you should find 'windows media player legacy' hiding in 'windows tools'.

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