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Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


uhhhh

so what do people use instead of vlc nowadays

:ohdear:

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Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Private Speech posted:

LMAO

Anyway, well, Media Player Classic, k-lite mega codec pack includes it and everything else

Has more strict licencing if you want to use it commercially though

thanks, glad that old thing is still around and being updated

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


The_Franz posted:

mpv is good


problem: a video player downloads updates over http, a potentially insecure protocol
solution: install a random collection of garbage software put together by and for teenage anime enthusiasts who just grabbed the individual components from random, unknown sources

said random collection of crap installed some kind of "adaware WebCompanion" thing without telling me and, in broken English, warns me I'm putting myself at risk by uninstalling it

yeah gently caress that, i'll look rather more carefully at mpv after some quick paranoia checkups

Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jan 19, 2019

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Private Speech posted:

uhh where did you download it from? pretty sure k-lite doesn't come with anything like that by default

The anime codec pack is the CCCP, which is kinda crappy, but I never had problems with k-lite before.

https://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_mega.htm was where i ended up--the url seemed like a clickbait domain all on its own but as near as I can tell from crosschecking results and other downloads, it's the real one

it's very likely i just stumbled over a default opt-in checkbox during the installer like a dumbass, but still

fake edit: https://forum.piriform.com/topic/41540-k-lite-codec-pack-1065-now-with-bundled-adware/ older url but i guess I'm not the only one

(edit) looks like that'd be why my default search got reset, too--letting that damned thing get installed reset it from DDG to Bing. i gotta be more careful (and never bother with k-lite again, mpc-hc seems fine on its own [thanks JBT])

Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 19, 2019

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


truth be told akadajet's reply to my initial query was the right one anyway

akadajet posted:

netflix and youtube

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Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


jit bull transpile posted:

mpc is dead because mpc-hc is the current active project

is there a site other than mpc-hc.org it's being run out of? seems the last dev there called it a day a year and a half ago https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/

(e) oh guess someone forked it and took over https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

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