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indomara , to mildlyinteresting in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Today I learned that firefox doesn’t like to play certain types of mp4 files. I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

Watching these books being archived is amazing, I would love to do this!

papalonian ,

I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

You can also use this trick to download YouTube videos without the need of a 3rd party website!

  1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you wanna download
  2. VLC / Media / Open network stream… And paste your URL
  3. Once the video has opened, Tools / Media Information
  4. Copy the URL in the “Location” field and paste it into your web browser, you should have the option to save the video

It’s a couple of steps but once you memorize what you need to do it’s a million times faster (and I’d wager equally times as private) than finding one of those websites to give you a link.

imecth , (edited )
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or just use youtube-dl
edit: here's an electron gui wrapper: youtube-dl-gui

kamiheku ,

Yes! Though yt-dlp has been the preferred fork for a good while now. yt-dlg is a nice GUI that supports downloading with the fork.

indomara ,

Neat! I figured out accidentally that you don’t have to do step 2, you can just open VLC and ctrl+v!

I am downloading a test video now, thanks that’s very cool!

papalonian ,

Nice, step 3 can also be accomplished with CTRL-I, at least on the windows version of VLC

indomara ,

Amazing! I showed my husband last night, he was equally amazed. :)

MonkderZweite ,

Today I learned that firefox doesn’t like to play certain types of mp4 files.

Probably missing a few dll’s or something, works fine for me.

indomara ,

I tried googling and came up with nothing other than articles suggesting I delete my cookies and update firefox. If you know what dll’s I should check please let me know! :)

MonkderZweite , (edited )

Depends on your OS and the alignment of Venus with the moon. For Linux, there’s Archwiki, sacrifice a lamb few bytes for good measure.

It’s usually something with media acceleration not set up yet. I believe i had to install the amdgpu-32bit driver first, before it worked? (oc only if you have amdgpu)

eerongal ,
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MP4 is just a container, the specific audio/video streams can be one of several different codecs, and if you don’t have the codec used it won’t work. If you can identify the encoding you could probably just download a codec and be good to go.

Edit: for this video the video codec is Codec: MPEG-H Part2/HEVC (H.265) (hvc1) and audio codec is Codec: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)

indomara , (edited )

The more I read about this, the more confused I am! Near as I can tell, Mozilla refuses to support H.265 because it is “encumbered by patents”. Is that right?

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/Video_codecs#h…

There are a few other places that mention the same… and I don’t know of a reputable place to download codecs.

However people in this thread say they are viewing this video in Firefox just fine! o_O

Edit: I downloaded the HEVC codec from the Microsoft store and it has had no effect. (Feel no obligation to reply, at this point I am just lost!)

eerongal ,
@eerongal@ttrpg.network avatar

Yeah, firefox doesnt support H.265 it looks like from some googling. Not exactly sure how other people are getting it to work, but it does look like there’s some extensions for firefox to toss the media streams to VLC instead, that could work for you.

rockSlayer , to noncredibledefense in FATHER I CRAVE VIOLENCE

Just a little dakka, as a treat

AnUnusualRelic , to noncredibledefense in Aircraft carried aircraft carrier
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Is that where all the helium went?

Denjin , to lemmyshitpost in Modern art

“I don’t understand it, therefore I don’t like it.”

0x4E4F OP ,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

What is there to understand… a bunch of people doing weird shit they like to call art. If that’s the case, each of us does art every day, we just don’t film ourselves doing it and call it that. Shit, film it, put some interesting music as the shit exits your anus, post it, tadaaaa, art.

frankenswine ,

it’s always hard to find intended meaning in excerpts from performance art. does art have to be experts doing non-weird things in your opinion?

nice post btw!

0x4E4F OP ,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

To be honest, I mostly just don’t get extreme performace art, like in the clip. I can listen to “extreme” (as in non-mainstream) music and watch “extreme” movies (like, let’s say Irreversible) and plays, but unless there is some dialogue… I’m sorry but, I don’t get it. Some performance art is cool and I get what they’re trying to say, but these extreme cases, no, I just don’t. Like the guy in the mummy outfit screaming. I bet that’s all there is in the performance… or a midget starts runnig half naked, also in a mummy costume (from top to half), or something like that… I mean, they’re predictable if you ask me. The point is to shock, nothing else IMO. I don’t think there is a point. The artist wants us to think there is one, so we wreck our brains “what was the artist trying to say 🤔”, while in reality, he just did some extreme shit, left the audience 😱 and them thinking “wow, he’s so artistic, he’s really good, the message was so strong” but when you ask those same people what the message was, they start studdering 😒. It’s all shenanagins, the artist stays all the wisers by not clearly stating what the message he was trying to say was (because there is none), the audience pretends like they understood what he was trying to say, but in fact didn’t understand shit cuz… well, there is nothing to understand.

frankenswine ,

how can you know these things when you only know a couple of seconds? that’s like saying you know a movie from having seen some short sequences of action scenes.

art isn’t how it looks but rather how it makes you feel, no? framing art (like in this video) robs the original art of their intention and creates a new perception on it.

kinda like saying rock music is bad because you heard of ozzy munching a bat or seeing marilyn manson harm himself on stage

0x4E4F OP , (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have seen other performance artists, the clip is not the first time I encounter performance art.

It makes me feel like I’m stupid for not getting what the artist was trying to say. There is nothing to get. I bet if you ask the artists to explain it, he will, but it’ll either make no sense, or he’ll say that he saw it in a dream or something like that.

Ozzy does stupid things because he’s Ozzy. Manson is a performance artist as well. That doesn’t mean his music is bad, but I would never go to a Manson concert. The Resident Evil acore was pretty good actually.

frankenswine ,

Well, there is bad art, of course. Or maybe you’re just not into it (that much).

0x4E4F OP ,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

I am into art, just not performance art, and especially not performance art that is just done for the sake of art progressing, or whatever the reason of the artist might be to do some stupid unrelated things and call that art.

Denjin ,

You’ve kind of hit the nail on the head, art is by definition anything the observer and/or the creator calls art and it creates some sort of emotional response in the observer.

By all means do a shit, film it and book somewhere to show it to an audience and you have indeed created art.

I agree that without any context, most of these clips look like ridiculous bullshit, but without understanding what the intention of the creator is and what the audience are getting from something you might as well just post clips of Star Wars without context and say “look how stupid this is LOL”

0x4E4F OP , (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

You’ve kind of hit the nail on the head, art is by definition anything the observer and/or the creator calls art and it creates some sort of emotional response in the observer.

Yeah it does, it makes me wanna look surprised and walk away. Does that make it art? No, at least not in my mind.

By all means do a shit, film it and book somewhere to show it to an audience and you have indeed created art.

See, this is why I stopped listening to alternative music. Cuz everyone just copy/pasted everyone else in the end, not to mention artists and bands, as old as time, just doing what they’re doing for the income, drugs and nothing else. They really don’t care about the music any more, some have even admitted that in public. So, am I supposed to listen to 100 albums on the off chance that I get to hear that one artists or band that actually made something new, interesting, not shitty, and different? No, thank you, I’m way past that point.

I agree that without any context, most of these clips look like ridiculous bullshit, but without understanding what the intention of the creator is and what the audience are getting from something you might as well just post clips of Star Wars without context and say “look how stupid this is LOL”

You know, I once went to this play called Solaris (there were movies made after the play as well, one English one Russian). Anyway, I was really excited because I really liked the movies (mainly the US version, the Russian one was somewhat boring, but watchable) and I was so pumped, I bought a ticket 3 weeks ahead.

So I go in and sit, the play starts and… it’s 5 hours long, 2 pauses in between… OK, I was expecting that, as long as it’s interesting, it doesn’t matter, right? And the play starts and it’s just… an hour and a half of slow motion movements, no dialogue, nothing… OK, I will be patient 😤. Oh, finally, some doaloge 🥳. 5 minutes, even that was in almost slow motion. Another hour passes with shit like in the clip, just people doing things that make no sense at all. That’s it. I got up, walked away from the theater. Those 3 hours have to be one of the most pointlessly spent ones in my entire life.

My point is, I knew the context of the movies, I knew what they were about and I saw none of that in the play. What does that say about the director of the play? Mind you, I wasn’t the only one leaving, the theater was mostly full, after an hour and a half there were like 30 people left, I was amongst the last ones to leave. How stupid can you be to think that 5 hours of that shit will keep people interested and trying to “decode” “what was the artists trying to say with this or that”. It can be interesting if it was a dose of it, like 15 minutes, but 5 hours of that shut, fuck no.

BTW, I bet you whatever ammount you like, I post a short Star Wars clip and screen it to people that have never seen Star Wars… 90% of people will understand what that scene was trying to say. It’s Star Wars, not Fight Club.

Duranie , to lemmyshitpost in That look... oh, she in trouble

It’s been years since I looked at it, but there’s videos on YouTube showing just how awful most “self defense” techniques are. Sure, it’s great as long as you’re prepared and it’s a predictable attack by someone who knows the routine and cooperates.

0x4E4F OP ,
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Yeah, have seen that video as well.

CADmonkey ,
HappycamperNZ , to lemmyshitpost in How the rest of the world sees the US and Royal Navy

LCAC is a little slow and the osprey didn’t crash killing 12 servicemen.

LainOfTheWired , to linux in I've started building a TUI for Lemmy
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That looks epic!

Please add the ability to view images with an external image viewer as I find a lot of social TUI apps seem to lack that.

Add that and you’re making my ideal Lemmy client

crunchpaste OP ,
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Thank you, that’s so kind! I’ll probably try to tackle the comments first as they come quite messy from the api, then I’ll probably give the images a go.

To be honest, I’m hoping this project doesn’t get out of my league too quickly as a have almost no experience with working with apis.

KiranWells ,
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You might look into displaying images in the terminal as well; many modern terminals support showing actual images natively

Rekonok , to noncredibledefense in Ho Ho Holy shit!
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You do not want the elves to find the location of your instalation

You have one shot before asking for mercy

Amanduh , to noncredibledefense in I own a P90 for homeworld defense because that's what Colonel O'Neill intended

I want to share this with someone but I'm not sure I know someone with the requisite knowledge to find this funny

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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Literally my first thought.

All the people with appropriate meme knowledge don’t watch Stargate.

All the people in my life who watch Stargate wouldn’t get the meme. They might get a chuckle from “lol random” type humor but that’s it.

Amanduh ,

How could this happpppen to meeeee ive made my mistakes

thann , to noncredibledefense in I own a P90 for homeworld defense because that's what Colonel O'Neill intended

POW! Right in the symbiote!

starbreaker , to noncredibledefense in You don't need to watch my six. It's already covered
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  • Frozengyro ,

    Looks like a .22, very little recoil. Disappointing…

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  • ShadowRam ,

    When will Kentucky Ballistics test fire it? and does it come chambered in 4-bore?

    deweydecibel ,

    Hospitals see anal play gone horribly wrong all the time. I doubt a seasoned nurse would be phased by it.

    InfiniteStruggle ,

    Well you see I had it put away next to the tub and i lost my balance and fell

    Ulvain , to noncredibledefense in It's drip or drown and brother I'm floating

    Trying to take over my country? That’s a paddlin’

    Anti_Face_Weapon , to memes in Pfff, HTML

    Funny meme, but I don’t think we should gatekeep. HTML is the path to HTML5 and thus JavaScript.

    Tak ,
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    Do we gatekeep Java though?

    Anti_Face_Weapon ,

    No. But we do get to hate Java.

    nuke OP , to noncredibledefense in ‼️NAFO Mig-29‼️

    What are we doing with our newly acquired firepower?

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    Up for a round of turret toss? It is packing a GSh-30-1, so it’s basically a fast A-10.

    Murvel , to noncredibledefense in Indian fireworks are next level noncredible

    “I’ll take a box of Super Osama bin Laden Kulfa Balls and some Adolf Hitler’s if you gottem please.”

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