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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In case of YouTube you can actually dump the link into VLC, and it will happily buffer the whole video while paused. This probably works with other sites, but I have only tested YouTube.

Alternatively you can of course just download the video with yt-dlp, and then play it locally

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I've just learned of another reason why VLC is fucking great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yet some people on here like shilling mpv. I've used both but vlc makes me feel at home.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the developers behind VLC seem like very cool people, too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The one thing I prefer about MPV is its ability to navigate frame-by-frame both forwards and backwards. That feature is useful for finding the right frame to screenshot. VLC can only do it forwards. Reading the feature request or whatever on the VLC repo, the devs keep shutting down suggestions with stubborn reasons why it can/will never be implemented.