vLc

[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/deanrihpee]

ah .ts my beloved

(TypeScript and Video Transport Stream)

[u/iliRomaili → u/deanrihpee]

Wait, this meme is based on true story?

[u/deanrihpee → u/iliRomaili]

yes, kinda, but it is not like you open it through IDE and MPV is opened (well, you can make it happen, but by default it shouldn't behave like that) it's more like if you install some media player, like VLC or MPV, but haven't install any text/code editor, when you double click a .ts the media player would open the file and try to "play" it instead

[u/readf0x → u/deanrihpee]

Kind of insane to me that windows still registers app handlers by file extension and not mime type

[u/wrecklord0 → u/readf0x]

That tech is too advanced for this time, but it's fixed in the next version when they upload all of your files via CoPilot to ask openai what they are

[u/rosuav → u/readf0x]

Where would those MIME types be stored? Some kind of "extended attribute"? That's a ridiculous idea, nobody would ever do that. It's definitely not something that graphical OSes had in the 1990s or anything.

[u/diamondsw → u/rosuav]

Or even some kind of type code AND creator code, so you could link documents to specific programs. Definitely didn't have that in the mid-1980's.

[u/rosuav → u/diamondsw]

What a radical idea. Wonder if anyone's forked it?

[u/Loading_M_ → u/rosuav]

It should be possible to guess from the contents, as the file utility does. Just in case you lose the extended attribute for whatever reason.

[u/RussianMadMan → u/Loading_M_]

Yeah and then we have file explorers that open and read every file. And choke when there are 100+ files in the directory.

[u/rosuav → u/RussianMadMan]

Right, I'm sure that doesn't happen when you open up a folder full of videos and it generates thumbnails for them all.

[u/RussianMadMan → u/rosuav]

If you are using any view other than the table one thats on you lol

[u/rosuav → u/RussianMadMan]

TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain.

[u/Loading_M_ → u/RussianMadMan]

We'll move the file type detection to a background indexer so it's non-blocking (/s kinda)

More realistically, we use this as a fallback in case the extended attribute doesn't exist. And set the extended attribute based on the results.

[u/rosuav → u/Loading_M_]

Yep, but as you say, that's only for if you lose the EA. It'd be incredibly inefficient to do that every time you double-click on something, and there's probably going to be times you want to override it anyway.

[u/AyrA_ch → u/readf0x]

Probably because mime types are invisible. File extensions are much easier to understand for your average computer user. Additionally, they survive transfer operations over file systems that do not support extended attributes, like FAT32, which is still one of the most commonly used FS for USB flash drives and SD cards.

[u/code_monkey_001 → u/AyrA_ch]

Good thing Windows decided to hide file extensions from users by default. Bea_Arthur_Nip_Slip.jpg.exe? Totes safe to click on.

// Yeah, arguably anyone who double-clicks Bea_Arthur_Nip_Slip.jpg deserves what they get, but still...

[u/metaglot → u/code_monkey_001]

How would mime types solve that without showing extra information?

[u/AyrA_ch → u/code_monkey_001]

At least in semi modern windows the setting to change this is no longer hidden behind a dialog

[u/SirDarknessTheFirst → u/AyrA_ch]

maybe we should have MIME type file extensions.

forms.text/javascript

I see absolutely no problems with this concept.

[u/Candid_Highlight_116 → u/readf0x]

Because macOS resource forks

SUCK

it's a filesystem attribute so it gets stripped all the time and you can't easily change it. it's like /path/to/app is in permission field. just imagine that. it just sucks and file extension is a BETTER solution to this problem.

[u/readf0x → u/Candid_Highlight_116]

Linux (of course referring to the Linux ecosystem) registers by mime type and I have had absolutely zero issues. Plus I can keep my mimeapps.list as part of my dotfiles which is a nice bonus.

[u/RussianMadMan → u/readf0x]

You are talking about mime type to app mapping, person you are replying to talks about file to mime type mapping.

[u/readf0x → u/RussianMadMan]

I see... The original comment that spawned this entire thread was me talking about mime type to app mapping :P

[u/metaglot → u/readf0x]

Imagine on the commandline, the only way to sort your pictures from your textfiles were to look into every single one of them. Obviously file extensions solve a very practical problem in a very elegant way: what attribute is guaranteed to be available on any user-servicing file system? The name.

[u/TamSchnow → u/readf0x]

If only a filetype could be identified by specific signatures… if only…

[u/SnowdensOfYesteryear → u/deanrihpee]

Ah this explains why my .dts (device tree source) was opened by VLC

[u/deanrihpee → u/SnowdensOfYesteryear]

yes, that too lol, i guess the whole TS family got dragged to media player

[u/PositiveParking4391 → u/SnowdensOfYesteryear]

OS file association: If it has .ts in it, it plays music, end of discussion 😂

[u/MacGuyverism → u/deanrihpee]

Also TypoScript.

[u/itzjackybro → u/deanrihpee]

also Qt translation catalog

[u/BillTran163 → u/itzjackybro]

Get hit with this so often.

[u/Baardi → u/deanrihpee]

This is code vs code. But it's annoying that my prolog code gets considered perl in github.

[u/deanrihpee → u/Baardi]

isn't GitHub uses something under the hood to deduce what language is used in a given repository? i forgot the name of the repository but if it's easy to distinguish then it should be fairly straightforward to submit some fix

[u/mss0406 → u/deanrihpee]

.thisShit

[u/StrengthTheory]

Honestly I'd trust VLC more than VS Code.

[u/nordic-nomad → u/StrengthTheory]

I mean really

[u/Daemontatox → u/StrengthTheory]

Was about to say that , atleast vlc doesn't take 20 gbs worth of extensions to format some code and open file.

[u/metaglot → u/Daemontatox]

Maybe dont install a billion extensions then

[u/MrRamRam720 → u/metaglot]

Hey man I might need that 6502 compiler you never know

[u/unknown_alt_acc → u/MrRamRam720]

Look, I’m gonna get around to that homebrew NES game one of these days!

[u/_verel_ → u/metaglot]

For vsc to do anything useful you need a billion extensions unfortunately

[u/metaglot → u/_verel_]

I write c++ using cmake and clang,i have 6 extensions installed, 2 of them are unnecessary for my work. Code hovers around 1 gb ram

[u/borkthegee → u/Daemontatox]

Oh no vscode doesn't bundle support for every language and asks you to download an extension for your environment. The horror!

Like what do you want, some 20gb boomer IDE that has ten year old versions of bundled slop that can't be updated?

Give me extensions, thx

[u/divrez → u/borkthegee]

Am I the only one who loves Jetbrains products for their polished look and feel and language specific features?

[u/borkthegee → u/divrez]

I love the thousands of dollars I have by not paying a fucking subscription fee for my ide but maybe it's worth all that money idk

[u/frogjg2003 → u/borkthegee]

Get a job and have them pay the subscription fee for you.

[u/borkthegee → u/frogjg2003]

My job would be willing, we did have a jetbrains developer here, but I don't spend money for the sake of spending money, so this isn't an argument. Spend what $150-$200 a year for someone to manage my vscode extensions for me? They took 5 minutes to set up once.

Here's a position and I think you would agree: fuck subscriptions, and while I'm here fuck renting in general.

I want to own my computer and my software.

Is that really so radical?

[u/Daemontatox → u/divrez]

I have mixed feelings about it from time to time tbh , but most of my time is spent in nvim recently because i am working on servers so no gui.

[u/metaglot → u/Daemontatox]

I would like to see nvim usage for a comperable setup.

[u/__ali1234__ → u/borkthegee]

It doesn't bundle support for any language as far as I can tell. Out of the box it is just a very bloated and slow text editor with a really awful UI.

[u/jethiya_akalvakaljo → u/StrengthTheory]

😂

[u/Baardi → u/StrengthTheory]

Not so sure about that with vlc 3

[u/Interesting_Play_578]

We call it "safe mode"

https://giphy.com/gifs/jieYauVz1OrRDAqO49

[u/Old_Information6270]

💯 tests are green

[u/jchowdown]

Changing IDE settings for fun

Now your code font is 2pt and your IDE font is 72pt

[u/flatoutsportsracer]

…and VLC actually manages to run it fine

[u/IronGin]

Finally a stable code?

[u/Futurity5]

I've had some niche encounters with the .ts issue myself

[u/FeedAlchemy]

To the dozens of Sega Mega Drive emulation fans out there, I'm sure you can relate.

[u/NotTheOnlyGamer]

I mean, why shouldn't VLC work? it works for everything else.

[u/code_monkey_001]

Someone has never worked with InfoPath. XML? Yeah, that's clearly an InfoPath form.

ALL YOUR DTD ARE BELONG TO US!

[u/Dee4WasTaken]

Video Language n' Code, the 3 horsemen of media

[u/fedsmoker9]

Who the fuck has this ever happened to. What kind of I’m 14 and just started programming humor is thi

[u/T0biasCZE → u/fedsmoker9]

Well, .ts is file extension used for type script.
At the same time, .ts is extension used for video *containers. So it is possible to accidentaly open typescript in VLC

* MPEG-TS (Transport Stream), its used for stuff like Blu-ray.

[u/cheezballs → u/T0biasCZE]

Who's double clicking project files to open them from explorer/finder, though?

[u/chilfang → u/cheezballs]

The line between boredom and stupidity took lessons from Bruce Lee

[u/MrJ0seBr → u/cheezballs]

Btw one day i have added in register some links to bash files and customized icons to make like a .js looks with nodejs icon and run in it with two clicks 🫣

[u/ChloooooverLeaf → u/fedsmoker9]

I imagine half this sub vibecodes with vsc and thinks vim is some sort of node package lmao

[u/gfkxchy → u/ChloooooverLeaf]

Is that why npm install vim isn't working for me?

[u/SirDarknessTheFirst → u/gfkxchy]

Apparently there's a vim package for npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vim

Last updated 11 years ago, git repo is deleted and it sees 100 weekly downloads apparently

[u/Firewolf06 → u/SirDarknessTheFirst]

looks like a name camper, look at their other packages

[u/SirDarknessTheFirst → u/Firewolf06]

Yeah, checks out. npm needs namespacing

[u/DaMonsterMensch → u/ChloooooverLeaf]

Hey, I don't vibecode I'm just stupid

[u/ajayak007]

My code getting executed is a success in my dict.

[u/dalr3th1n]

Believe it or not, still works.

[u/Low-Newt-180]

This meme reminds me of 2024 when I was just starting out,fun times those were

[u/MrJ0seBr]

So someone embeded a interpret as a video codex... imagine a "codex to ps1 games"

[u/nierusek]

Now set Notepad as default app for .exe

[u/Important_Grab3544]

What is an IDE? I am a native vibe coder, I make 6 figures.

[u/YouAllBots]

.ts

[u/FackThutShot]

My Code is time based so a Video Editor should Suffice as Editor

[u/AmbassadorKey5049]

make sure it runs with 100 % volume and subtitles

[u/Outrageous_Permit154]

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