Fun fact: VLC video player displays a Santa Hat during the Christmas season on Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD, and Unix from December 18th to January 1st. If you no longer want to see the Santa Hat (or it bothers you), here's how you can remove it from VLC:
-> How To Remove Santa Hat in VLC Player Permanently
Is there any way to force VLC to only export clips as MP4 video files? It's randomly been doing all my videos as ASF which don't work with photopea which means I can't make gifs and nothing I do can change this except to make them much lower quality using websites.
I forgot to set VLC as my default video program after updating, and Microsoft Media is apparently now charging $1 a pop for codec packs
and by God, there are people paying it, aren't there
ETA: VideoLan is a nonprofit and VLC media player is totally free. It works with every file format I've ever tangled with, and immediately played back the file with no difficulty. Get dinked Microsoft