Which video player do people use?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1118 posts since 3 May, 2005 from Victoria, BC
We have 3, standard, Xjadeo & FFmpeg. I don't want to support 3 going forward, would anybody be mad if I deleted standard and Xjadeo?
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- KVRist
- 51 posts since 28 Nov, 2023
FFmpeg here (Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11)
I won't be mad
I won't be mad
Give yourself the opportunity to discover something.
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 11 Oct, 2023
use vlc, its the most popular
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- KVRist
- 347 posts since 21 Jun, 2020
ffmpeg is currently one of the most popular and frequently used projects. Perhaps in this regard it is worth focusing on him.
VLC=FFmpeg
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- KVRist
- 80 posts since 18 Nov, 2023
FFmpeg !
It is a huge, widely adopted, major project, in use almost everywhere where video is involved nowadys.
Xjadeo is know to me ony from Waveform and for the user does not show any apparent advantage over FFmpeg - actually the opposite is true according to my experience.
Standard Player is unknown for me, it does not launch on my system.
It is a huge, widely adopted, major project, in use almost everywhere where video is involved nowadys.
Xjadeo is know to me ony from Waveform and for the user does not show any apparent advantage over FFmpeg - actually the opposite is true according to my experience.
Standard Player is unknown for me, it does not launch on my system.
(Waveform PRO 13, Linux)
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- KVRian
- 724 posts since 25 Jul, 2010 from Northern Ireland
I only ever use FFmpeg.
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- KVRAF
- 2350 posts since 9 Oct, 2008 from UK
I've never managed to get Waveform (or Tracktion) to show a movie file. I looked at instructions for installing ffmpeg (on Windows) and it didn't look fun. As someone suggested that VLC (which I've used for years, especially after discovering other options came from dodgy places) uses ffmpeg, I've checked to see if I already have it installed.
I have, on my main drive alone, seventeen ffmpeg.dll files in fifteen different sizes. I note that these could have been compiled by fifteen organisations using different compilers (and they may have tweaked them, so they might not represent 15 different versions). I note the existence also of ffmpeg.exe (5 files in 3 sizes) and a selection of other .dll files possibly incorporating the name of the organisation or software they arrived with.
With that many already supposedly doing a job for me, do I need to tell Waveform where to find one of these files? Or does it need more than one? Thanks in advance.
I have, on my main drive alone, seventeen ffmpeg.dll files in fifteen different sizes. I note that these could have been compiled by fifteen organisations using different compilers (and they may have tweaked them, so they might not represent 15 different versions). I note the existence also of ffmpeg.exe (5 files in 3 sizes) and a selection of other .dll files possibly incorporating the name of the organisation or software they arrived with.
With that many already supposedly doing a job for me, do I need to tell Waveform where to find one of these files? Or does it need more than one? Thanks in advance.
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- KVRian
- 724 posts since 25 Jul, 2010 from Northern Ireland
@jabe on Windows OS , Waveform supplies it's own version of FFmpeg, so essentially this should/will be chosen as the 1st choice for default player, meaning that it will still run regardless if you have FFmpeg on the system or not. I'm not overly familiar with the Win OS, but Linux works this way ( most of the time afaik )
* You could maybe try symlinking from the ffmpeg.exe + ffprobe.exe in Waveforms directory to another on your system ?
* You could maybe try symlinking from the ffmpeg.exe + ffprobe.exe in Waveforms directory to another on your system ?
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- KVRAF
- 2350 posts since 9 Oct, 2008 from UK
Interesting. Thank you for your reply. I'll investigate further. I was thinking I might use one of the Sysinternals utilities to see what files are opened when using Waveform and, particularly, when aiming to get a clip window running.mikoatkvr wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:41 pm @jabe on Windows OS , Waveform supplies it's own version of FFmpeg, so essentially this should/will be chosen as the 1st choice for default player, meaning that it will still run regardless if you have FFmpeg on the system or not. I'm not overly familiar with the Win OS, but Linux works this way ( most of the time afaik )
* Screenshot from 2024-04-08 22-37-39.png
You could maybe try symlinking from the ffmpeg.exe + ffprobe.exe in Waveforms directory to another on your system ?
[W10-64, T5/6/7/W8/9/10/11/12/13, 32(to W8)&64 all, Spike],[W7-32, T5/6/7/W8, Gina16] everything underused.
