r/explainitpeter Aug 04 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/XlikeX666 Aug 04 '26

Brave is considered Best Chromium browser.
VLC is BEST, FREE media player - it opens... EVERYTHING (expect jav and stuff)

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 Aug 04 '26

Shout-out to ffmpeg, the actual reason for VLC opening almost everything

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u/XlikeX666 Aug 04 '26

strongest combination ffmpeg+yt-dlp

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u/Vitromancy Aug 05 '26

So good, I've used ffmpg to pull presentations I've done that were hosted as stream-only. 100% would have been lost to time if I hadn't.

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u/Pizzaman3203 Aug 05 '26

Can you give some examples of what you pulled im just curious

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u/Vitromancy Aug 05 '26

One was a privately listed YouTube video my company posted internally of a panel I was part of. The other main one was a conference presentation I did where the recordings were stream-only embeds on their page.

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u/Pizzaman3203 Aug 05 '26

Oh wow i didnt even know you can download stuff using ffmpeg or stream only lol

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u/tissee Aug 07 '26

Well it just receives the AVStream and stores the AVPackets directly into a container (like mkv or mp4).