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VLC is by far the best media player in existence, and I'm extremely thankful for the team behind it. Gives me hope that this whole Foss thing is actually very good for the world.
I very much prefer mpv.
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You're arguing that MPC is better than VLC because of an issue you encountered 13 - almost 14 - years ago?
No, I'm pointing out that a better player already existed since the inception of VLC.
VLC is by far the best media player in existence, and I'm extremely thankful for the team behind it. Gives me hope that this whole Foss thing is actually very good for the world.
I very much prefer mpv.
I just want to play videos, what is the benefit of MPV? I used it for a while, because it was "better" but now I wonder "better how"?
There is also IINA that somehow seems more snappy/better-integrated on macOS.
I always wonder why people go gaga googoo over VLC, when there's Media Player Classic with K-lite which does a lot of the same things better. I remember watching 1080p blurry rips in MPC without any problems in 2008 while VLC would spend 1 year doing some sort of buffering upon opening then struggling to play the video correctly.
VLC just works now, its on every platform, and I used it to run any video that MPC couldn't play. Then I just used it to play everything, and I can do that on every platform I use, they all have VLC.
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I very much prefer mpv.
Why? The GUI is simple, MPV needs learning CLI to play videos. https://www.migaku.io/tools-guides/migaku-mpv/guide/ and has drama like this. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/cdaa496314f90412963... I just want to play videos, what is the benefit of MPV? I used it for a while, because it was "better" but now I wonder "better how"?
It certainly does not. You can launch mpv by clicking/doubleclicking on any media file in your file manager, the same as any other. You can also drag media files to your mpv icon, or drag media files to a running mpv instance.
Edit: Also I don't know where you found that "migaku" guide, but it's crap. Why is guide written in english telling people to download a config file that sets Japanese as the default audio and subtitle language? Why the hell is it turning hardware decoding off by default? Also, sudo to curl into usr/local/bin/youtube-dl when you could just put yt-dlp/youtube-dl in the regular mpv configuration directory? Fucking... why?
Do yourself a favor and read the official documentation if you really want to give mpv a try.
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Why? The GUI is simple, MPV needs learning CLI to play videos. https://www.migaku.io/tools-guides/migaku-mpv/guide/ and has drama like this. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/cdaa496314f90412963... I just want to play videos, what is the benefit of MPV? I used it for a while, because it was "better" but now I wonder "better how"?
> MPV needs learning CLI to play videos. It certainly does not. You can launch mpv by clicking/doubleclicking on any media file in your file manager, the same as any other. You can also drag media files to your mpv icon, or drag media files to a running mpv instance. Edit: Also I don't know where you found that "migaku" guide, but it's crap. Why is guide written in english telling people to download a config file tha…
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Well, I've personally always wondered why people advocate MPC. During like 15+ years of use I can't recall having a single issue with VLC. And that's from consuming basically everything from the VCD era and onwards. In my experience VLC has been as close to flawless software as one can get.
I dont think VLC is bad by any means or that anyone shouldn't use it, I just don't understand the comments I often see on HN acting like it's some unprecedented software that's unlike anything else.
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> MPV needs learning CLI to play videos. It certainly does not. You can launch mpv by clicking/doubleclicking on any media file in your file manager, the same as any other. You can also drag media files to your mpv icon, or drag media files to a running mpv instance. Edit: Also I don't know where you found that "migaku" guide, but it's crap. Why is guide written in english telling people to download a config file tha…
If I want to change the speed in VLC, I can find the menu easily. There is a minimal GUI on MPV that doesn't show me anything for changing speed, it changes A-V delay when I try a -/+ command with CTRL, there is no right click menu, there is accessibility to helpful shortcuts that I shouldn't need to memorize keys for. Its minimalist for no good reason, has poor accessibility, and if I can't even find the help menu,…
It is true that mpv usually doesn't have a GUI menu for this (I believe it does on MacOS, but lets ignore that.) However it's not true that doing so requires using a command line. Speed is changed using the [ and ] keys, which is documented in the manual. Obviously this is not friendly to novices, but it certainly does not require using the command line.
> Its minimalist for no good reason
It's minimal for a very good reason: because some people like it that way. Obviously it's not for everybody, and there is nothing wrong with that. I would never consider recommending it for everybody, but I object to the implicit assertion that all software must aspire to be good for everybody.
> what is the benefit of the design?
To you? Probably none. So I don't recommend it to you.
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MPC-HC is just as good as VLC and maybe a little less cluttered. It's Windows only of course, but if that isn't a limiting factor, then it's a very good alternative to VLC in my opinion.
From the home page: "MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else."