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I don't think piracy needs to come back, it never died. But I'm not expecting a significant revival of video players. Who wants to watch shows and movies on a
by hocuspocus 4y ago
I don't think piracy needs to come back, it never died.
But I'm not expecting a significant revival of video players. Who wants to watch shows and movies on a computer nowadays? On most devices (TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, ... but also computers to a lesser extent) you're limited by the hardware codecs, a custom video player is typically not going to save you.
- nix0n 4y agoAll of those little devices run some form of Linux.
- hocuspocus 4y agoOr iOS. But that's a bit moot. For instance my LG TV doesn't support Dolby Vision files outside a few very specific encoding profiles, there's no software fix for that.
- babypuncher 4y agoPretty much no media player supports Dolby Vision profile 7 as it is only used commercially on 4K Blu-Ray discs. The newer Nvidia shield advertises support, but it is incomplete and does not suport the enhancement layer included on most Dolby Vision discs. MakeMKV supports preserving all this metadata so I would love a solution that lets me watch my 4K Blu-Ray rips with Dolby Vision.