2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a is big.
"DESCRIPTION
FFplay is a very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs."
says
info ffplay
too modestly.
Alternative players are unusably buggy. E.g. Media Player (Version 11.2505.2.0 © 2025 Microsoft) - C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_11.2505.2.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe - with Windoze 10. E.g. a different (but similarly named) program which is also with Windoze 10: Windows Media Player - C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\WMPlayer.exe - which in my experiences is less buggy than Media Player but still unusably buggy. If this MegaScoria software would not be so buggy, then I would not have written this webpage to congratulate FFPlay programmers! Congratulations and thanks!
The first fault in ffplay that I detected was when I tried to unpause it with a huge circa 4-gigabyte 74-hour MPEG-4 file at 137675.46 seconds (38 hours).
("Not responding 0% [CPU] 9.1 MB MB/s 0 Mbps Very low [Power usage] Very low [Power usage trend]" said Windoze-10 Task Manager specifically about ffplay but circa 7% CPU and 82% Memory and 23% "Disk" and 0% Network for processes overall. It still was not responding and playing after circa 2 hours so I aborted ffplay.
This paused and aborted command is like
ffplay -ss 137670 -showmode 1 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a
The second fault in ffplay that I detected is that the display of the elapsed seconds at the lower left part of a console continues to be animated but in an erratic manner when the end of a file had been played.
ffplay.
2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a is big.
2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a is so big that Audacity needs many tens of minutes to open it.
Audacity can be used to process audio files. Alas a normal storage product is too small for Audacity to fully handle a 74-hour recording. "As a guideline, one hour of stereo recording at default settings (44.1kHz, 32-bit) occupies approximately 1.2 GB of disk space" warns HTTPS://manual.AudacityTeam.org/man/error_disk_full_or_not_writable.html but alas this quotation can inspire unjustified optimisim. 4-gigabyte 74-hour Recording 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a makes Audacity demand more than 74 GB but it is not even stereo! Cf.
ffprobe 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a
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FFMPEG can copy a small part of a big file to a small file for playing by an inadequate player.
ls -l --human-readable 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a ; ls -l 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a ; ./ffprobe 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a ; date ; time ./ffmpeg -copyts -ss 151498 -to 152117 -i 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a Canvasser_about_murders_at_9_minutes_past_5pm_on_Wednesday_13th_November_2024__-copyts.m4a ; date
-r--r--r-- 1 Owner None 4.0G Jul 1 21:34 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a
-r--r--r-- 1 Owner None 4294966427 Jul 1 21:34 2024_11_11_23_04_45.m4a
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Mon Jul 28 12:36:42 BST 2025
ffmpeg version 7.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
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Mon Jul 28 12:36:50 BST 2025
I used Audacity to censor in HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/stailc_teanga/La_Eile_gan_ghraiscinteacht.webm cursing in hilarious La Eile.
Recordings are legal and important.
Microsoft Sprachrekorder 10.2103.28.0 (on Windows 10) perpetrates too many unauthorised terminations of recordings at circa 2 hours and 52 minutes and 58 seconds. Sound Recorder (on Windows 7) and a recorder (on Android) by ECARD S A/JACEK KINECK do not do this. "Newer doesn't mean better. Newer means newer!" said a physicist during 2010. (Alas a video application on Android annoyingly becomes stopped without warnings within minutes.)
MegaScoria makes bugs but persons still use Windoze! (Access this hyperlink then press "TECHNICAL".)
"Windows 10 is being updated way too frequently (twice a year) and each new version changes something that breaks Classic Shell." complains a Classic-Shell programmer since 2017.
"Like DOS programs, and unlike UNIX programs, Jhead gives feedback as to what it is doing, even when nothing goes
wrong. Windows user that I am, when something doesn't give me feedback for 20 seconds, I assume it[']s crashed." says
info jhead
by Matthias Wandel.
"[. . .]
A few seconds ago,
HTTPS://Downdetector.com/status/windows-azure
published:
"User reports indicate possible problems at Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft. Azure
offers both 'platform as a service' (PaaS) and 'infrastructure as a
service' cloud solutions.
[. . .]
Microsoft Azure outages reported in the last 24 hours
[A peak of 18,506 at 4:16p.m. yesterday . . .]
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Prateek Dubey
16 hours ago
This outage is unbelievable—it’s impacting far more than just a single
Azure Availability Zone or Region. I’m seriously starting to consider
moving back to on-premises or hybrid cloud solutions. Events like this
make you realize how critical it is to have alternatives when even the
biggest cloud platforms face such widespread disruptions.
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21 days ago
Most of the Microsoft services including Azure, Teams, Office365 in
Eastern US are completely down. This is very bad
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Everyone is surprised? What do you expect when you put thousands of
systems into one platform. This entire cloud idea is going back to the
mainframe structure that failed and this will fail again for the same
reasons.
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The International Criminal Court uses Microsoft Azure. Perverts! Idiots! This subventions fraudster professes Azure engineering." say I myself via news:587b386c-f622-e2b7-eea9-50c24693debb@irrt.De since 30/10/2025.