Similar boat, but I had to go full CPAP loooordy it makes a difference, I feel human again with it!

You can turn them off, just not sure of the legality of this in your country…

National weather service???

Would you say the doom and gloom is Lemmy specific, or more of a global thing, given the state of life ATM?

Nice hiss

Kinda, vlc uses libavcodec, which ffmpeg also exposes via CMD line, ffplay is a very very stripped down player, and handles a much wider scope of video than vlc does, for a multitude of reasons.

If vlc fails , ffplay via way of ffmpeg should, if THAT fails, you are going to have a tough time

For Karl!!!