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I've always found VLC's UX very awkward. Very happy with mpv.io. On Windows, MPC-HC until it's been abandoned recently; Replaced it with MPC-QT, which is a mpc-hc-like UX but implemented using libmpv.
chromecast!
Yeah, I'd been using the Chromecast support in the earlier 3.0 betas. Seemed to be working just fine, although it wasn't getting the "friendly" name that I'd set for the device. So instead of "Living Room TV", I'd see a big hash-code. It can also play audio over Google Home speakers.
It has much nicer interface, thumbnail previews on hover, multiple subtitles support.
Moreover it solved all of the issues that I've had with VLC.
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This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts. Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around…
> With [...] mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides Huh? You mean on Windows or what? I never had to write a config file to use mpv (on Linux).
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This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts. Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around…
1. You really don't need MadVR. The default install of MPC HC or BE should be fine. 2. VLC has this resizing behavior that I do not understand how people tolerate. It just feels clumsy compared to MPC which feels more native. VLC is a good backup if or when MPC fails. What I am saying is MPC is better for watching porn than VLC.
I don’t need MPC-* either. MadVR and LAV filters are the two reasons typically cited for switching from VLC to MCP.
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Now how long until Google breaks the API again? They did that the last time people started implementing Chromecast renderers in open source projects.
Do you have a source for that? I thought Google only broke the APIs when people tried to clone Cchromecast functionality in another device form factor, or create an emulator for a Chromecast, not just implementing the normal "Cast to" functionality.
And yes, I want that functionality. "Cast to VLC".
I hope this is just a rough patch for VLC which has been a great application for a long time.
If you're on MacOS, try IINA instead. It has much nicer interface, thumbnail previews on hover, multiple subtitles support. Moreover it solved all of the issues that I've had with VLC.
I may try this out - I had to move away from VLC because getting it to properly do hardware decoding/deinterlacing on Linux has been like pulling teeth. If you've got a modern video card, it's hard to go back to software deinterlacing after seeing how good it looks when done by the GPU, and I could never reliably get it to work. Eventually moved to SMPLayer which works great, but it would be nice to see it working ri…
I had moved to MPC-BE (Media player classic home cinema black edition) due its superior UI and 4K hardware support and dual-device audio-output (PC 5.1 speaker plus over HDMI to TV). And MPC-BE allows one to quickly skip through a movie by dragging the mouse. And MPC-BE can play partly corrupt files too, one can even skip around such files. VLC 2x sucks at all these things, yet it's still better than traditional Windows Media Player or iTunes. VLC 1x was quite good back then, but 2x was a let down and MPC-HC and MPC-BE are simply better for several things. But let me try VLC 3 again, maybe things improved.
> SMPLayer
It's a light GUI over ffmpeg library, so the video playback is great, but the UI looked like a fisherprice toy and it was a rough experience two years ago. On Win64 MPC-BE is a lot better.