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[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The funny thing is that said .flv files could be played with VLC without any issue at the time I acquired them. I downloaded a bunch of cartoon episodes in this file format back in 2010 (?) when once-click-hosters like Megavideo were a big thing then. I was able to play them with the then current version of VLC without any problems.

Since then there were several updates with VLC and some time along the way it suddenly didn't work that good anymore. I might add that this file format is not very common today (it was, when Adobe Flash was still around), so today there might be no incentive to maintain any old codecs for these type of files any longer.

When it gets worse with dwindling playback compatibility I probably have to acquire these files with a more recent file format (e.g. .mp4) in the future.

[–] bikooo2@r.nf 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can convertí the files in another playable format with Handbrake, probably you Won't need Change the codecs of the files only the container and the conversión will be fast than reencoding all

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can, but it's a lot of number crunching time to convert a bunch of files like that, as opposed to just using a different player.

[–] bikooo2@r.nf 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, but if it only he need to remux then is less time than reencoding.

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this would be an option (that I did not think of). But I assume that it would be easier to download the same file in another file format, as there will be probably an improvement regarding the video resolution (480p versus 1080p or higher).

[–] bikooo2@r.nf 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

It also in more recent years had an update that messed with it's vcd playback ability. Don't remember exactly the problem but I had a rip of an old vcd and was pleased that it played it back no trouble, and even from the original disc too but then a couple of years later it changed so I had to do something to extract an mpeg2 stream or something to get it to work and it from then on had audio issues that had never been there before.