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jdmichal on Nov 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: H.264 is Magic

I recently bought a camera that has 4k video recording. VLC just gives up playing the video. Even Windows Media Player can handle it. No idea what's going on, but I was really surprised and disappointed with VLC.

voltagex_ on Nov 6, 2016 [–]

See if you can cut a small segment and submit it as a sample to ffmpeg. Hell, see if ffprobe and ffmpeg can play it. Happy to help, if you've got enough upstream bandwidth.

jdmichal on Nov 7, 2016 | [–]

Sure. I'll give those a try tonight. I assume if it works in `ffplay` directly, there's no need to submit it?

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