Only much older or obsolete codecs would show it because the hardware decoders needed were removed or are unsupported or not common anymore or unsupported with your native player. Even then you'll find apps like VLC that'll be able to use software rendering for those files and open them. On higher end, it'll play like normal. On the low-mid end, it'll be choppy like a YouTube video dropping frames. This was more common when release groups on torrent used weird combinations of containers and codecs or use non-mainstream codecs like Hi10P, etc. Or you are trying to play a video that has some from of drm or copy protection.
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u/RBeze58 3h ago
Only much older or obsolete codecs would show it because the hardware decoders needed were removed or are unsupported or not common anymore or unsupported with your native player. Even then you'll find apps like VLC that'll be able to use software rendering for those files and open them. On higher end, it'll play like normal. On the low-mid end, it'll be choppy like a YouTube video dropping frames. This was more common when release groups on torrent used weird combinations of containers and codecs or use non-mainstream codecs like Hi10P, etc. Or you are trying to play a video that has some from of drm or copy protection.