Re:What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
by dooglius on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:28AM
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What year was this? I don't know there has ever been a normal format it doesn't support, and I think this has been the case for at least 15 years.
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Re:What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
by dotancohen on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:25AM
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Up until just last month I had never had a problem with VLC. But I don't pirate content so maybe I just hadn't encountered the problematic files. However, recording voice notes in Opus format on my phone, it turns out that VLC has a bug playing Opus files at certain bit rates. However for me this is easily worked around by just using MPV.
Re:What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
by u_sama on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:34AM
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I dropped VLC circa 2019 for all the reasons mentioned and ever since I use exclusively MPV, both on Windows and Linux.
So at least from those times
Re:What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
by mywittyname on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:38PM
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The only current VLC issue I encounter regularly is the subtitles one. I'm a lite video user, so I'm not sure the technical details, but some subtitle formats render black-on-black in VLC, but work fine on Plex/TV.
I've also encountered the odd "this video is corrupted" error that persists even after re-encoding. But I've never thought to troubleshoot to see if it's a VLC, and instead just get a different version.