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Red Squirrel

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Boo guess I did not pay attention when I downloaded GOT season 5. It's in HEVC format, so I can't open it. No idea what that format is but run into it now and then and nothing opens it.

You know it's an oddball format when even VLC can't open it.
 

Red Squirrel

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Found some stuff I can download through apt-get to make it work, but it just goes all green and blocky and crap and stutters. Guess I'll redownload a different one.
 

sdifox

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Boo guess I did not pay attention when I downloaded GOT season 5. It's in HEVC format, so I can't open it. No idea what that format is but run into it now and then and nothing opens it.

You know it's an oddball format when even VLC can't open it.


Vlc can definitely play hevc. And hevc is the latest standard for a while now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding

What vlc might have problem with is 10bit encoding. Most notable on animes.
Are you on version 3.0?
 

Red Squirrel

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2.1. At the mercy of whatever the package manager provides unless I want to jump through hoops to try to get a newer version, not worth my time for a work laptop. I go the playback to work but it's not actually watchable. Too blocky and choppy. Guessing this is a closed source codec which is probably why it's problematic. Managed to just download a different version using a more common codec.
 

sdifox

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2.1. At the mercy of whatever the package manager provides unless I want to jump through hoops to try to get a newer version, not worth my time for a work laptop. I go the playback to work but it's not actually watchable. Too blocky and choppy. Guessing this is a closed source codec which is probably why it's problematic. Managed to just download a different version using a more common codec.


Huh? 2.1 is ancient.
 

bigboxes

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Who here will admit to trying Viagra? I had a friend tell me that he was taking them for performance issues. Tried to push them on me. My libido works just fine.
 

Red Squirrel

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Huh? 2.1 is ancient.

Linux distros tend to be behind in what they put in the package managers. I try to avoid messing with trying to install stuff manually as it just conflicts with the stuff from the package manager and makes a mess.

Don't think the version matters because I was able to open those video files on my home computer and it's running 2.2. I think it's something with the laptop at work, it just can't handle the files for some reason. Was just easier to download a different version of the videos that use a more widespread codec like mkv.
 

Red Squirrel

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Morning nef. Snow plow didn't go by, so at least I will be able to get out of the driveway easily.

We have a flood warning now. I'm not on a flood plane so I should be ok but sucks for those who are.
 

sdifox

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Linux distros tend to be behind in what they put in the package managers. I try to avoid messing with trying to install stuff manually as it just conflicts with the stuff from the package manager and makes a mess.

Don't think the version matters because I was able to open those video files on my home computer and it's running 2.2. I think it's something with the laptop at work, it just can't handle the files for some reason. Was just easier to download a different version of the videos that use a more widespread codec like mkv.


Mkv is just a container. You want h.264 for older codec.

And you can update individual packages.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Not worth messing with with trying to update individual packages, then you start to get weird conflicts when you start mixing a bunch of PPAs and then go to do a full system update, been there done that, I try to avoid it if I can. Not worth the hasle. Much easier to just find a video format that works and call it a day. Which I did.
 

IronWing

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Went in search of the elusive five striped sparrow this morning. Found it. Images are crap because it was too far away, even with a 600mm lens.

fssparrow.jpg
fssparrow2.jpg
 
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