Use Media Player Classic instead. It is still being maintained.
Someone should put down some traffic cones to direct people to a decent media player.
We should hire some penguins to direct them to a decent OS.
Now I have a penguin with a cone on its head
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It’s not that bad, ram is abundant and plentiful right now so we should try and utilise even more of it on a media player.
It’s unfathomable to me that anyone would use this instead of VLC.
I just use VLC and uninstall everything else when I have to use Windows.
I try to get media player classic after I install windows. At least the latest supported incarnation.
I love VLC as a concept but the interface never gelled with me.
Although these days I’m more into Linux. Fedora FTW
VLC runs even better on Linux haha, but there’s a few good open source players at this point.
I personally like MPV
mpv my beloved
yeah, but who cares, ram is cheap.
- posted from 2024
That’s the one thing windows is good at. Using system resources senselessly
mpc-hc-clsid2 is a wonderful option designed after the real legacy windows media player, not the bubbly piece of junk.
And with a name that just rolls off the tongue, too.
I just think of it as Media Player Classic or MPC. It’s a “3rd gen” open source project. I’ve been using it since it was just MPC. Then MPC Home Cinema added features and more support. And around 2020 Clsid2 took over development when the HC team called it quits.
Huh, didn’t know mpc-hc called it quits. I should move to the new thing… Though TBF I got mine bundled with k-lite media codec pack.
Noooo I use Legacy Media Player to keep the screen from turning off on my work computer.
Is presentationsettings.exe or PowerPoint available to you?
Yeah, I think so, I just tried the Media Player approach first and it worked well and is super easy to do, so I stuck with it. I like that it simply opens up a small window of a random screenshot I took and I can overlay windows over it but it keeps the screen unlocked anyway. I’m not sure if the same can be done with the PowerPoint technique? The eternally looping Media Player screenshot is nice since I’ll work in bursts; sometimes I’ll fuck off to Lemmy for an hour, other times only 5 min, other times I’ll actually work for several hours, all while the looping screenshot does its thing. (My work’s policy has our screens turn off every five minutes or so of inactivity and it annoys the absolute shit out of me.)
