Could have used this in the nineties, where hunting a specific codec to play that video you downloaded off a BBS was an actual thing.

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cruffle_duffle 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh man it extended well past the 90’s. Finding some weird windows video codec in a dodgy .ru domain was a time honored tradition for quite some time.

I remember all the weird repackaged video codec installers that put mystery goo all over them machine.

The article bashes VLC but I tell you what… VLC plays just about everything you feed it without complaint. Even horribly corrupt files it will attempt to handle. It might not be perfect by any means but it does almost always work.

	▲	zzo38computer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had found that VLC does not play a MPEG-TS file very well (although it recognizes the file and plays it, it does not work very well); converting it to another format first, will cause it to play better, in my experience.