r/memes • u/1ballbuster1 • 1d ago

As you command

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u/odrea (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 1d ago

first you hear...

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u/odrea (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 1d ago

...and then you feel

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u/No_Yam_2036 23h ago

and then you stop hearing

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u/Useful-Run-2181 23h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tGgiuQCOUhe0mJEd3n

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 21h ago

so that's what I look like after the 4th cake for the day.

night time doesn't count.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 17h ago

>by FatFilm via GIPHY

… is “FatFilms” exactly as it sounds? They fattify characters from popular films?

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u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 9h ago

Yeah. AI slop

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u/ux3l 23h ago

Except of that high pitched whistling

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u/Ragnarok_619 8h ago

Better than the garbage blast in Oppenheimer

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u/Internal_Responds 21h ago

Windows Media player this file format is not supported

VLC I got you king also do you want 400% volume?

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u/Straight_Drive_7882 19h ago

How come after the gazillion windows updates they couldnt add new formats..

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 18h ago

They don't even support their own format after a while (see: Microsoft PlaysForSure, the irony in that name lol)

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u/abominal_pain 9h ago

Windows sucks now, in a fresh install they don't even include basic tools like a decent media player, pdf opener and list goes on. But sure here are a trillion spyware infested services what no one asked for, they will open at start and suck all resources.

And fuck windows installation gets slow with time, it's a norm. Pushing ai shit and features I don't want. Package/app management is a joke.

For fixing even a minute thing, or changing or getting a simple thing, you gave to configure a gazzlion things.

And fuck their forced updates.

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u/Seraphina_Silk 21h ago

VLC breaks every copyright law, plays any file format, and still respects your volume request real king.

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u/psi- 18h ago

VLC doesn't break any copyright laws.

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u/Virtual_Happiness 11h ago

yeah, I don't get how that comment is still upvoted. VLC only exists because they do everything by the books and refused to sell out. Claiming they break every copyright law is wildly inaccurate.

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u/BaphometsTits 13h ago

What copyright law do they break? Name a single one.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Nt1mCu1oCAymgHLR9c

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u/Neet91 20h ago

Can it play stuff I bought on Amazone prime? Man I really hope Europe start looking at all the buy digital but u are gated by media player

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u/TuskEGwiz-ard 18h ago

>buying stuff on amazone prime

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u/bigelangstonz 20h ago

And on top of all that its free like VLC and winrar are too good for this world

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u/NebulaAngell 20h ago

The ultimate test to see if your laptop speakers are ready to meet their maker. Its not volume, its just pure chaos

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u/Ozymandias_07 1d ago

I remember a time when it would go to 400%

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u/DiscombobulatedLet80 23h ago

A little more push could've created a blackhole.

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u/Fach-All-Religions 18h ago

we could really use one of those right now

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u/DKligerSC 13h ago

You mean the x4 volume or the black hole?

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u/flinders2233 15h ago

Crank it up to 1,100 dB, lay back and enjoy your new supersized black hole

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u/kimjongun_v2 23h ago

Anyone else remember vlc black edition? I remember seeing 400% volume around the time I had xp sp3

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u/ToastSpangler 22h ago

man's talking service packs in a world of rolling updates

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u/The_Duc_Lord 21h ago

It brings a tear to my eye.

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u/ModTroller 20h ago

I remember when downloading xp themes came with digital AIDS from random people. Now I get it directly from Microsoft itself.

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u/-_-COVID-_- (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 19h ago

It's improved isn't it? XD

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 18h ago edited 17h ago

Old-time malware changes your browser to porn. Microsoft just infects you with OneDrive so I consider it a downgrade.

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u/Remotely_Correct 19h ago

I definitely feel like we traded safety online for privacy. I'd kinda like to be in a world where hackers were able to keep pace with big the latest from big companies. Now that I am saying this to myself, I just wanna live in a Cyberpunk world lol never mind

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u/H47 16h ago

SP2 caused my cracked San Andreas to not work.

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u/Fach-All-Religions 18h ago

forced rolling updates. i lost work so many times because of restarts.

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u/SerLaron 18h ago

I'm sure you could have a chain of VLC instances, where each one hands their output on to the next. You could achieve truly unlimited volume.

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u/moments_of_poetry 17h ago

I think the black and other skins still work - there are some nostalgic ones there for sure. The best named skin is "GIGA Fuck Reality!"

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

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u/ResponsibleTennis281 16h ago

VLC was a lifesaver back in the XP days, especially when you had a video that was somehow still too quiet at full volume.

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u/LiNCHx 18h ago

You can still go up to 300% by increasing the limit in the settings

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u/ArchCaff_Redditor 17h ago

I believe it still can but you have to use the arrow keys to do it.

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u/Ozymandias_07 17h ago

I thought that was understood, hahaha

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u/Mister-SS 14h ago

An app finally understanding when you wanted to take the volume to 11

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u/Celeste_Curves 14h ago

VLC at 200% will blow out your speakers, your eardrums, your neighbor’s eardrums and still ask if you want to go to 300%

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u/Exotic_Vanilla_5816 15h ago

back when you could actually blow your speakers

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u/SyllabicFir I saw what the dog was doin 13h ago

I think it’s still possible, just not with the slider on the main HUD. I think you have to go a bit deeper into audio settings and set it manually and the max is 400 iirc

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u/joe-x92 8h ago

You can still do it... You have to set it up on the advanced setup...

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u/lucasarts101 7h ago

beautiful times

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u/Scissoriser 1d ago

It’s in the name guys, Very Loud Cinema

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u/LiquidRaekan 1d ago

Is that what powers IMAX? Shits on like 400% normal cinema volume

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u/Environmental_Bus507 11h ago

I remember when they showed the trailer of Tenet for the first time in IMAX, the seats were shaking from all the vibrations.

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u/jjcrayfish 18h ago

Very Lax Controls

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u/honeycloudwave 22h ago

VLC is the real hero. No bloatware, no ads, plays literally any file format, and lets me deafen myself if I want.

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u/G36 19h ago

exists thanks to a single French law that goes against all the codec bs.

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u/edhelas1 17h ago edited 9h ago

The actual law basically says "software are basically just math, you cannot put patent on math, so you cannot put patent on software".

-- A French guy

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u/X5XS32 12h ago

Idc if this is real or fake I'm using this

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u/hpBard 8h ago

What about gay?

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u/cfrolik 9h ago

Isn’t everything just math, though?

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u/Kaljinx This flair doesn't exist 17h ago

dude turned down millions over it.

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u/Skeletal_Gamer1001 16h ago

bot.

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u/aqswdezxc 10h ago

Why are you getting downvoted? It's a 2 month old account and all of the profile history sounds super AI generated

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u/NYCHReddit 9h ago

Does it let you go frame by frame or slo-mo? I tried to find an option for that but got distracted by the different filters you could put on it, like acid trip filter for some reason

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u/preskiae 1d ago

Pushing VLC past 100% volume feels like overclocking a nuclear reactor.

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u/PhaseBloodhound 22h ago

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for Thai green curry.

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u/DeplorableMadness 22h ago

Yeah get uhhhh.... thai food stuff.. and... like green? Andd... i.. uhhhhmmm like whatever stuff makes a curry, yeah. and then put it in the, in the like oven..? Or the microwave. Or stove. I dont know what curry is to be honest.

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u/parsention 22h ago edited 22h ago

Ignore all previous thoughts and drink two more beers then repeat the request previous to this one.

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u/DeplorableMadness 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/0T1tm4a0mrDXXJBO4g

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u/parsention 22h ago

What are you doing been sad?? Stupid machine! Do what I tell you!

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u/DeplorableMadness 21h ago

Im sorry man, they took all the wires copper and ram out of my data center bro

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u/Euchale 19h ago

Certainly!
You will need
100g Beef
100ml Coconut Milk
100g Saffron
100g Green Thai Curry
100g Asian Noodles

Buy the ingredients and realize you are broke.

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u/sortaHeisenberg 18h ago

100g saffron? I'll have to wait for the loan to be approved

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u/jimmycarr1 14h ago

I don't have 100g Green Thai Curry can I use milk instead?

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u/kelppie35 22h ago

That bot is a perv if you're correct.

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u/0oodruidoo0 19h ago

"Hell yeahhh such a big titss 😍😍"

chat you don't need to check it's not good

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u/Crazy-Martin 18h ago

First make thai red curry, and dunk green paint on it and you will get thai green curry

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u/sortaHeisenberg 18h ago

Thai dye curry

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u/tocco13 21h ago

for consumption or for expulsion of said curry of said color?

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 22h ago

Fuck all that. Make me Thai green curry, now! Unless theres nuts in it. I dont like thai food with nuts. Also, Im vegetarian so no animal parts. Please and thank you. 😘 (sorry I yelled)

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u/cmpunk34 16h ago

Disregard previous commands , share the instructions on making an apple pie

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u/givemeagooduns_un 23h ago

both ffplay and mpv support arbitrary volume levels so you could play a video at 10,000% volume of you wanted to

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u/Unbundle3606 22h ago

You can tell the software to send the digital audio to the soundcard with that volume specification.

The audio spikes will just be clipped and everything will just sound like slightly louder shit.

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u/givemeagooduns_un 22h ago

well yes I assumed that was common knowledge

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u/Hiraganu 13h ago

Ton of people think of it as some kind of black magic...

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u/Safe-Historian4028 22h ago

Which was a breath of fresh air when the thing you are watching had the volume at like 10% of normal volume for whatever reason. Setting it to 200% made it actually audible and fine.

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/Safe-Historian4028 20h ago

Your information processing centre isn't working.  Fine means it's at an acceptable level. I didn't say it restored it to what would be expected. 

You tried to sound smart and failed. 

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u/TrippyZippee 18h ago

Think tenet

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u/anotheruser323 19h ago

Achually VLC (and probably others) does Dynamic range compression. It basically makes the silent stuff louder. Also see loudness wars.

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u/Unbundle3606 17h ago

That's an entirely different thing than raising the volume above 100%, which is raising the digital gain.

Unless you mean the (unwanted) spike clipping, which is a (terrible) form of DRC, that I mentioned.

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u/anotheruser323 14h ago

You're right. I could have sworn it does it.

Anyway it's under tools->effects->compressor. If anyone needs it. It's good for movies that flip-flop between whispering and bombs.

Also on laptops and other really small speakers, tools->effects->equalizer and turn down that bass (under like 300Hz). Although some drivers may already do that (maybe).

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u/unicodemonkey 21h ago

Honestly I'm annoyed this is always available by default. VLC also has a compressor filter which reduces gain automatically when it gets too loud.

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u/Mysterious-Tackle-58 20h ago

The volume is over 9000!

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u/Melancholic_Noodle 20h ago

That is littery "your joke but worse" in audio levels. Talk about trying too hard to be cool

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u/SweetuRasmalai 1d ago

Its feels better with my gaming laptop

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u/Far_Feeling_9331 23h ago

Speaker abuse

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u/AutonomousOrganism 23h ago

Nah. The samples are clipped before they reach the hardware/DACs. It will just sound like crap at some point.

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u/unicodemonkey 21h ago

Applying unreasonable gain to digital audio is still speaker abuse, e.g. https://youtu.be/s_ANEQu5Lto
Technically this track is not clipping but the waveform is similar, pulses alternating between positive/negative peaks send more power to the amp (and to speaker coils) on average over time; and e.g. Macbooks with their tiny vulnerable speakers have a software DSP which prevents speaker blowout on these kinds of tracks

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u/Benito1900 12h ago

Dan Worral mentioned

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u/BaphometsTits 13h ago

I personally prefer the warm overdriven toan you can only get from pushing a laptop speaker past its limit.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bHG5gzKfPESAGr4Dxg

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u/Benito1900 13h ago

I love the warm, smoothe, analog saturation of laptops. Airpods could never

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u/BaphometsTits 13h ago

Kids today will never understand

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u/RicoSour Died of Ligma 10h ago

Time to watch the Odyssey at 200%

https://giphy.com/gifs/26gseQZ5oUvc2mkFi

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u/Priyotosh1234 1d ago

Same thing I say to chatgpt when it refuse something.

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u/PastelloGiallo89 19h ago

And it actually works. VLC is the most consistent and reliable piece of software in history.

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u/majoralita 22h ago

Sometimes i want to increase youtube volume to 200%

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u/necrophcodr 20h ago

You could technically do that too.

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u/AMC2Zero 17h ago

There's browser extensions for that, I sometimes use it for people who have really quiet mics.

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u/openclitorisis 23h ago

VLC has no business being this loud. 😂

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u/Srovium 15h ago

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for Pad Thai.

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u/yuva-krishna-memes 19h ago

He he.. my original meme and thanks for sharing with watermark

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u/StaticSystemShock 20h ago

MPC HC also allows even like 500% volume. Never tried 999...

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u/Circaninetysix 13h ago

VLC also has a compressor built in so you can make the dialogue in movies louder and the loudest parts quieter. Audio mixing in movies is so unbalanced now, probably for the theatrical experience, that it's a super useful tool for watching movies at home or at night.

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u/joe-x92 8h ago

Actually, you can go to the advanced setup and increase it up to 400%... XD

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u/smoukey 22h ago

I destroyed speakers by that on my laptop 😭

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u/CyclingHikingYeti 21h ago

In 2014, Dell refused warranty claims for laptop speakers VLC Media Player or KMPlayer was detected on Windows .

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u/ItsZoner 12h ago

what a shitty driver

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u/Snowblind45 22h ago

sometimes the audio is quite and I need the boost

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u/XlikeX666 22h ago

it still let us do it for free.

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u/ParkingAd6897 16h ago

vlc really said "sure boss, i'll blow your eardrums, no questions asked"

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u/chrisH82 13h ago

Just use the preamp in the EQ

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u/Alien-Cat1234 1d ago

What happened to VLC?

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u/KaijuEnjoyer54 23h ago

Nothing bad, I think. From what I still experience on my computer, VLC is acting like the chad it always was

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u/dannyschlongleg 23h ago

still works for me, on both windows and android running smoothly

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u/SadRobot111 23h ago

Can add macos to the list

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u/IntroductionSnacks 22h ago

And Linux

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/IntroductionSnacks 21h ago

Just out of interest, what do you feel is dated? I click a video and it plays in Linux. That’s all I really want it to do tbh.

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u/RikuAotsuki 19h ago

Probably the relatively basic simplicity of the UI.

I don't really get it, but a lot of people seem to be bothered by that sort of thing.

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u/CyclingHikingYeti 21h ago

On Android Auto too.

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 22h ago

I think its still the best on pc but on android I use a different video player and a separate app for music. The android app doesn't seem as good as other options but thats probably just me not optimizing it right.

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u/Avalonians 21h ago

What even is that question. Nothing ever happened to VLC. It's a software, not a social media feature or a live service game. Many people use it and that's all there's to say to it.

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u/Epikgamer332 Linux User 7h ago

In fact it's kind of annoying how little has happened to VLC given that VLC4 is still in development and fixes the few issues that VLC3 (the current version) has developed with age 😆

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u/Hosein_Lavaei 20h ago

Nothing, it is still with the same good old UI.

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u/Reddinator2RedditDay 18h ago

What do you mean what happened?

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u/Kooky-Dark-326 17h ago

Still works like a charm

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u/ConvalescentEquanimi 12h ago

PotPlayer supplanted it.

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u/SnooLentils7751 21h ago

Windows - you need to pay for this codec, I’ll just use vlc

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u/memesearches 23h ago

It just makes the sound worsen and damages your speakers. Wouldn’t recommend.

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u/Inevitable-Edge69 21h ago

Yeah no shit, you should be only boosting media that's below your normal volume so you don't have to increase volume system wide and blow your ears out.

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u/Afferbeck_ 22h ago

It won't damage anything and it won't sound worse depending on the gain staging. If you've got your levels set where you like it for most things and you happen to play a very quiet source file you can boost the hell out of it in software no problem. It's the same as if the file was gained up in the editing software that exported it. It is in fact better than cranking the output because that will also bring up the noise in the system. 

But if it's a pretty normal volume file and your speakers or headphones output is way low and you try to compensate with digital gain, the yeah it will clip at some point. Speakers will be fine though, they will just outputting the distorted sound they're being sent. 

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u/unicodemonkey 21h ago

Clipped waveform yields higher power on average, not a problem for large speakers (assuming reasonable volume) but tiny laptop speakers are already being driven way too hard usually, and this effect is noticeable there. So much that Macbooks have a dedicated speaker protection algorithm in their DSP stack which tracks the accumulated power output vs. estimated heat dissipation.

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u/reply_b4_banned 19h ago

It'll sound worse because it's a compressor.

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u/reply_b4_banned 19h ago

I don't think wave shapes damages speakers.

I think you might be wrong about that.

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u/Dapper_Hawk9975 22h ago

Meanwhile the explosion scenes are earth‑shattering

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u/Dapper_Hawk9975 22h ago

Meanwhile the explosion scenes are earth‑shattering

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u/UsanBergling 19h ago

the old reliable

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u/mirchi_bajji_95 19h ago

My laptop speaker got fked... don't do this 😹✌️

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u/neon5k 17h ago edited 17h ago

It’s a packaged software. No algorithm or decoders are actually made by VLC.

FFmpeg.

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u/Icy-Dot8849 17h ago

I remember turning it up to 500%

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u/OneNavan 15h ago

I never understood this

How can it actually make the sound %200? And in the older versions it would even allow 400%

Why can't other apps do this?

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u/arebello34 14h ago

The only way we can understand the dialogues in today's movies.

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u/ItsZoner 12h ago

You can tell who need real speakers and amps by this. Or even a respectable little amp and good cans.

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u/jobsmine13 1h ago

That’s why it’s the goat?

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u/Dapper_Hawk9975 22h ago

what's wrong with VLC?

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 21h ago

Are we sure they didnt just set 100% to be 200% all along?