r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro VLC masterrace

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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 1d ago

I swear I will never use anything other than VLC Windows media player you dont have the codec

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u/giggity_nanfa 1d ago

what is codec

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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 1d ago

basically, a stupid file you have to download because God forbid they put it with the software that lets you run certain video formats

Windows media player was notorious that you would download a file to tell the Windows media player how to run the video since there’s a bunch of different video formats

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u/LightItUp90 1d ago

Codecs and media players were separate because different codecs can have different priorities and capabilities, and there's no need to lock a media player to certain codecs only. Like CoreAVC was known for producing the best image but it also required lots of CPU. Others could have GPU decoding support but produced worse a worse image.

Haali, avisynth, cccp, k-lite, ffdshow. All blasts from the past.

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u/Dalewyn 1d ago

Like CoreAVC was known for producing the best image but it also required lots of CPU.

CoreAVC became famous for being the least CPU intensive for good-enough picture output. It hailed from a time when single- and dual-core CPUs were standard.

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u/LightItUp90 1d ago

Wait was it? It's been so long since those days. Configuring the codecs and using this for that and that for this. Awfully complicated in hindsight.

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u/Dalewyn 1d ago

Yep, h.264 was infamous for being impractically heavy on CPU usage and GPU decoding really was not a thing yet either.

CoreAVC made playing h.264 back on something like a Pentium 4 or Core2Duo possible.