• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      552·
      2 months ago

      some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

      “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

      manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      +1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Wasn’t there some big thing where they tried to buy it and the person that made it was just like “nah”

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂

    • M137@lemmy.world
      43·
      2 months ago

      I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    50·
    2 months ago

    Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, OBS (open broadcast software), Linux distros of various sorts, openHAB, LibreOffice, Firefox (and plugins like uBlock), PiHole, VirtualBox, Notepad++, Paint.NET, VLC, 7-Zip, FileZilla…

    I’m sure there’s more.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      74·
      2 months ago

      Gimp is a bit of a stretch.

      I’ve used it a lot, but unlike most of the others on this list, the commercial product (Photoshop) is so much better that I’m willing to shell out the monthly fee to use it over Gimp.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 months ago

        One story that I should write down because I always tell it when discussing Godot since it’s a great example of why Godot is better than other engines is that a while back I was doing a single player game for a game jam, because I was testing it with multiple controllers I wanted that it would pick any controller (it’s a single player game after all, no one cares which controller I’m using) and was annoyed at the fact that every game engine requires you to create mapping for all controllers individually to do this, e.g. “controller 1 button A”, “controller 2 button A”, etc. So I went into the code for Godot and added a couple of lines that allowed me to create a mapping for all controllers, i.e. “Any controller Button A”. This felt so useful that I wondered why no engine has it, so I submitted a PR and last I checked Godot is still the only engine that allows for “any controller” style mapping.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    I think Blender is a very honorable mention, especially since the team that makes the software has also used it to make some really impressive short films, such as Big Buck Bunny. Who knows, maybe some indie studio can use it to make some truly wonderful stuff (and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case).

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      “everything everywhere all at once” was made largely in Blender I think, it’s the most popular film from a studio using Blender that I know of

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 months ago

    The Dialer.

    • Comes with every phone
    • 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
    • 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
    • Very low-latency voice support
    • High quality audio (most of the time)
    • No ads
    • No obnoxious UI

    All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.

  • Nerandza@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    New pipe, I didn’t see anyone mentioned it

    Besides, I use Linux, Organic maps, Signal, VLC, KDE on daily basis and THANK YOU good people on internet for making my life happier!

  • arni@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months ago

    Anki flash cards. I use it everyday and commercial programs can’t hold a candle to it.

  • Scolding7300@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    OrganicMaps, all the trails I’ve been to so far in the US are available for offline navigation. No need to precache via gmaps and pray it won’t get deleted

    Edit: OpenStreetMap which powers this is what AllTrails uses, but I’m not sure if they contribute back or not

  • stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    2 months ago

    F-droid is amazing and distributes amazing software that many people already mentioned.

    In order to write software, developers need software. I think we should also mention the GNU packages and LLVM.