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Playing an unsupported file (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Image Alt Text: "After downloading a 2.5GB movie

Me: Presses play Movie unsupported file" A person is shown with eyes on her laptop punching the wall beside her, causing it to crack.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

where the fuck are u getting ur movies??? I've only ever seen mp4 and mkv, all of which even windows media player handles I think

[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's an ".avi.exe".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah idk if vlc does .exe

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Windows would be greatly improved if it would let you bind VLC as the default handler of exe files

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's a way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i actually accidentally made all exe files open in Windows Media Center on a family pc as a kid.
basically the system had to be reinstalled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Mp4 and mkv are container formats. Your comment is somewhat equivalent to "where are you guys getting text files that can't be displayed, I've only ever seen zip files".

The codec in the container is what needs to be played, and can fail to render correctly.