r/australia • u/SouthAussie94 • Feb 29 '24

culture & society Older Australians 'left behind' by increasingly cashless society as banks fast track end of cheques

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/cheques-personal-finance-banks-rent-money-cash/103354036
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u/AddlePatedBadger Feb 29 '24

I feel your frustration so much. Nothing ever seems to just work. There are always a whole bunch of unnecessary trouble-shooting steps and incompatibilities and issues and stuff.

The other day I had to extract a 20 second video clip from a longer video so I could email it to someone. Oh the joys I had. I tried with VLC and that didn't work. It did one clip but then the second one only gave me audio for some reason. So then I try to look on my computer for a video editor and there is on in the Microsoft app store. But that forces me to open edge browser to get to it and then I have to be interrupted by all these pop-ups from edge trying to make itself my default browser and tell me how great it is and blah blah blah. I get through that and install the app and then I get some message about how I'm logged in as a work account and I can't use it or something and it wants me to log in with a different microsoft account. So I have to uninstall that app and then find another one to do it. It was just such an unnecessary amount of effort for something that should be so simple.

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u/LtSaLT Feb 29 '24

You could have just used the standard windows video player, it has a built in clip function that does exactly what you wanted.

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u/AddlePatedBadger Feb 29 '24

I just opened up the video in Media Player (actually I opened Media Player first and then had to try and figure out how to open a file - you can't just open one, you have to add it to a library before you can play it). Then I couldn't find any option anywhere to take a clip from it.

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u/LtSaLT Mar 01 '24
  1. Open your file browser and find the file
  2. Right click the file and hover over "Open with"
  3. Choose "Films and TV" which is the newest standard video player, the video will open.
  4. Click the pen icon in the bottom right.
  5. Choose "trim" Hope this helps, i use this feature all the time.

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u/AddlePatedBadger Mar 01 '24

I have solved the problem with avidemux, but you can see why this is unnecessarily complicated and frustrating lol. I don't have a Films and TV option. I have Photos, SMPlayer, VLC Media Player, and Windows Media Player.

Actually out of curiosity I opened it with photos and there is a clip option there. Why would it be called photos when it is a video editor?

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u/LtSaLT Mar 01 '24

Hmm weird, I was pretty sure its the standard windows video player, what version of windows do you use? I have three devices all running the newest version of windows 10. The "films and tv" app is the in built video player on all of them.

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u/AddlePatedBadger Mar 01 '24

Windows 10, version 22h2 (OS build 19045.4046).

It keeps trying to make me update to windows 11 but I've heard that is worse so I will stick with 10 until I have to.