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rsimmons / voracious

A video player for studying foreign languages (esp. Japanese)
https://voracious.app
MIT License
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video file has no audio or an unsupported audio codec #35

Open SpongebobSquamirez opened 5 years ago

SpongebobSquamirez commented 5 years ago

Please make this error go away after a few seconds. My current workaround for this is to play the audio in another media player like VLC while I use voracious for video and lookup; but this PIECE OF SHIT error message won't go away, which ruins the picture.

Seriously, voracious has terrible codec support, making most of my stuff unwatchable without converting it. And there are some things I just can't convert. Oh, and don't forget to switch the English and Japanese tracks since Voracious only uses the first audio track! And don't you just love the fact that you have to reload the program for it to detect changes to files you're trying to get to work with it? Hurray for no support!

oudajosefu commented 4 years ago

This right here is the most underrated comment on github... Please start fixing voracious soon

cessen commented 4 years ago

Seriously, voracious has terrible codec support,

Voracious is built on top of Electron, which is in turn based on Chromium, so the codec support is limited to that of Chromium. Better codec support would need to be added to the Chromium project, not Voracious directly.

One possible alternative would be automatic transcoding with ffmpeg upon library import, but I don't think that would be a good user experience. Personally I'd rather transcode my own stuff manually.

In any case, I agree with your issues with Voracious as a piece of software, but I absolutely don't agree with your tone or its implications about the author. If you really need Voracious improved that desperately, make a fork. Otherwise, at least be kind when you file an issue. As The Dude once said: "You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole."