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Not discovered in the past year, but in the year before that:

Blender (program for 3D modelling, animation and rendering)

cobalt.tools(web-app for downloading video or audio content from youtube and other websites)

VLC (media player that plays almost everything)

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media player that plays almost everything

What doesn’t it play?

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I discovered that VLC isn’t so good at playing .flv files. This are video files that are saved in the Adobe Flash Video container format. I have some episodes from cartoon series which I downloaded years ago. Sometimes there are no playback issues with VLC, but sometimes the audio track is delayed. For this reason I have installed IINA, but I like VLC’s user interface better.

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Weirdly enough I often find things playing back better in IINA than VLC even though as I understand it they’re basically the same under the hood. I also find the reverse occasionally as well.

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Thankfully, vlc’s audio offset function is very easy to quickly adjust and save. As long as the audio delay is consistent you can adjust it pretty quickly.

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Banjo

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It’s not good at displaying anime fansubs if they have complex typesetting. I have to use MPC-HC + madVR. Sadly those fansub styles are a dying breed…

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Corrupted files

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The Stargate SG-1 DVDs for some reason. All others I tried work fine.

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It can’t go back one frame at a time yet has no problem going forward at the same pace.

Pathetic.

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Are there any FOSS apps that can do this? MPV can move frame by frame but moving back is so unusably slow.

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Need to keep Cobalt Tools in mind. Was looking for something like that.

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How does it compare to yt-dlp?

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Warning, I might be wrong:

yt-dlp seems to be operated with command lines, whereas cobalt is a user interface in an opened browser tab. You paste the link of the desired video or audio source into a search bar and you can toggle different settings (bitrate, file format, video output size etc.). The desired file will be appearing as a download into your download folder.

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I didn’t know cobalt.tools was OSS. cool!

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