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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not just a generational thing — most of the millennials who were torrenting 15 years ago (which was a lot of them!) have completely forgotten by now ime. Now I'm longing for the days when 'VLC is the best media player' was common knowledge and not arcana

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean…it’s still the best ffdshow wrapper imho

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

VLC is still the best media player... But only on Windows systems. When I switched from Win->Linux I had to relearn a lot of new things that were common knowledge on Windows but work differently on Linux.

Specially Win11... Eewww !

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, mpv is better on Linux. VLC is still my preference for DVDs on the computer though. Super easy.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I got into Linux by building HTPCs and then media servers, so it's been a while since I watched anything hunched over a computer monitor tbh

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough. Personally I put all my media on my Jellyfin server, so kind of a similar situation here.

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

MPC-BE + MadVR + LAVFilters kicks the cone.