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Please, read carefully. I have some 1500 files that don't play with Media Player. In 100+ directories.  You fail to argue, why I should want to waste weeks of my life for no other purpose than enabling Media Player on my TV to play those files. For which a bunch of working players exist, except that WebOS doesn't want to permit me to install any of those. Isn't that a tad crazy?  

You said it yourself 25 years ago The world has moved on. A quick conversion to .mkv takes a minute or two and saves disk space, without loss of quality

I'm sorry, but I don't see a good reason to not support older standards. .avi was a very normal one when I started with my collection some 25 years ago. Now I have around 4000 movies/videos, out of which around 1500 don't play with Media Player. So, this otherwise most beautiful TV is almost useless for me. I actually wanted to love LG and WebOS, but - as you might understand - now I cannot recommend it any longer.  I also don't see what would make it soooo difficult for WebOS to provide a more universal player. Or an older Player, additionally, I wouldn't mind opening those files with a different player. Or, as I wrote, offering a path, even if I lost warranty. Look, actually I need an extra laptop next to the TV, connected via HDMI, on which I play my files, using VLC, with the TV just being the external monitor to that laptop that serves for nothing else here. 

LG OLED65G56LS – I want to turn off the commentator's audio during a football match but keep the stadium sound.

the update to webOS 26 broke the very valuable home assistant integration! Please fix it asap - many users rely on it! link hidden, please login to view

Have you tried converting the file to a more modern format? I use Fornat Factory  link hidden, please login to view The converted file. say .mkv, will run with the Media Player and will be smaller, without loss of quality, if you want to archive it

I know this was mentioned before. I'd like to support this. WebOS is such a great and versatile system; a real media centre. BUT: I have a number of video files that it simply doesn't play. VLC, e.g. does, but is not available.  To me it is such a pity that I have to have a system in parallel (actually a PC!) to play those files, with VLC, and then switch to HDMI to watch the clips on my TV. This doesn't look very much like 2026, as far as I am concerned. To give an example, in which nothing is spectacular, and yet it doesn't play: Format                                   : AVI Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave Format settings                          : BitmapInfoHeader / WaveFormatEx File size                                : 360 MiB Duration                                 : 51 min 6 s Overall bit rate                         : 986 kb/s Frame rate                               : 23.976 FPS Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release) Writing library                          : VirtualDub build 24259/release Video ID                                       : 0 Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5 Format settings                          : BVOP1 Format settings, BVOP                    : 1 Format settings, QPel                    : No Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263) Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream Codec ID                                 : XVID Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD Duration                                 : 51 min 6 s Bit rate                                 : 752 kb/s Width                                    : 512 pixels Height                                   : 384 pixels Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3 Frame rate                               : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Color space                              : YUV Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0 Bit depth                                : 8 bits Scan type                                : Progressive Compression mode                         : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.160 Stream size                              : 275 MiB (76%) Writing library                          : XviD 1.1.0 (2005-11-22) Audio ID                                       : 1 Format                                   : AC-3 Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital Codec ID                                 : 2000 Duration                                 : 51 min 6 s Bit rate mode                            : Constant Bit rate                                 : 224 kb/s Channel(s)                               : 2 channels Channel layout                           : L R Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz Frame rate                               : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode                         : Lossy Delay relative to video                  : 23 ms Stream size                              : 81.9 MiB (23%) Alignment                                : Split across interleaves Interleave, duration                     : 42  ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration             : 500  ms Service kind                             : Complete Main Dialog Normalization                     : -27 dB compr                                    : 0.53 dB dynrng                                   : 0.53 dB dialnorm_Average                         : -27 dB dialnorm_Minimum                         : -27 dB dialnorm_Maximum                         : -27 dB Please, add-on to media player whatever is necessary to play such files! Better yet: add something like VLC or at least Dragon. Make it available; even if the warranty was void, I'd prefer to load such an application. Thanks for pondering!

Since my lg-oled65c9pla auto-updated to WebOS 5.5, there is a new bug. The TV is connected to my Cambridge Audio Evo 75 amplifier over ARC - on powering the TV, it has always started up the amp, and switched it to use audio, instead of the appalling TV speakers. The whole setup has worked flawlessly for 5 years, but since WebOS 5.5, the amplifier starts, but is left in a muted state, and using the un-mute or volume controls on the TV remote makes no difference to turning on audio. The only way to get audio to play though my amp a speakers is to turn the amp's volume dial or press a volume button on the a amp's remote - this then unmutes the TV and audio is back.  There is no setting I can find in the TV that relates to whether the ARC channel starts muted or not... No software has changed in my amp.  This is an annoying new bug in the TV software, I assume down to some CEC changes.