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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by Madeindjs »

coppsilgold wrote: post #13

MPV has versatile scripts. For example you can cut and crop a video you are watching[1]. You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player. I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding): n vf toggle normalize=smoothing=100 Or rotate a video: Ctrl+r no-osd cycle-values video-rotate "90" "…

I personally use MPV to play my music libraries containing mainly FLAC file and I wrote a plugin [1] using JS to send my listens to listenbrainz.org . It's damn simple, but it worked for the past few months!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/madeindjs/f33225cf4d8fdc9f61e0fe3ebe...

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by prurigro »

lottin wrote: post #9
pengaru wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Strong clam, this ... What's better?

mplayer

Isn't mpv a more modern and maintained mplayer fork? Mplayer was my go-to for many many years, starting in the early 2000s, but I switched at one point and can't remember why. What do you prefer about mplayer?

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by vocx2tx »

mathfailure wrote: post #2

The best media player available on linux. The worst GUI (none) out of the box. Bearable after tinkering a bit with configs.

> The worst GUI (none) out of the box.

That's funny, for me that's exactly the best GUI out of the box. I actually did some tinkering to reduce the GUI parts even more, and added more keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by w4rh4wk5 »

baal80spam wrote: post #7
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #4

Is this worth a look when you are pretty happy with VLC already?

Yes, it is. I don't understand the cult of VLC to be honest. There are better media players, at least on Windows.

I do use MPC-HC on Windows, but it's no longer under development :'( IIRC it can't do AV1.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by iLemming »

What's cool that you can control it from your editor. It feels so nice managing YouTube video playback from Emacs, makes the note-taking so easy. elfeed-tube/elfeed-tube-fetch command lets you follow the transcript, while ignoring commercial bits. You can basically search through the text and play it from that point.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by vocx2tx »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #26
entropie wrote: post #12

I started to use it on linux a few years ago. Now its on every device, even on my android tablet. Its perfect. Minimalistic, sane defaults, fast and just works. It can even play natively over ssh. Its awesome > mpv sftp://mit@nyx/home/mit/Work/merged.mp4 Recently I needed a hotkey to rotate a video (which seems not like any player can easily do this; for mpv it was a 'r cycle_values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"'…

You can also play videos over http, many websites are supported, even YouTube: mpv

It uses yt-dlp as the download backend, so it works with anything that yt-dlp handles.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by beagle3 »

etra0 wrote: post #20

A fantastic mediaplayer, quite minimalistic and performant; it does what it's supposed to do! Also has a fantastic commit where the author rants about locales: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... worth a read for some chuckles.

A long, informative read, with some profanities. Highly recommended!

25 years ago, Spolsky wrote an article called “everything you wanted to know about Unicode and character sets”. Those of you who only lived in the post Unicode/UTF world might find that one informative as wel.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by sgc »

mathfailure wrote: post #2

The best media player available on linux. The worst GUI (none) out of the box. Bearable after tinkering a bit with configs.

I use SMPlayer as a front end for mpv (you can select mplayer or mpv as backend). Not sure if that is common or even a good idea. But I am generally happy with it.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Bluestein wrote: post #14
jwells89 wrote: post #5

This has always worked well for me, handling anything that’s thrown at it with ease. Things may have changed since then, but when I first encountered the project several years ago it seemed like the thing that made this project stand out compared to other player projects was a big emphasis on correctness and accurate playback. There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reprodu…

> There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reproduction is not quite right, etc) that mpv plays perfectly. Given how VLC is basically bulletproof and will play absolutely anything thrown at it - it's great to hear that mpv is up there ...

While great in general, vlc has many small seek/sync issues, and also seems to be in maintenance mode.

Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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Post by chgs »

lottin wrote: post #9
pengaru wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Strong clam, this ... What's better?

mplayer

I used played for 20+ years but moved to mpv recently as I ran into a couple of things player won’t work with.

Struggling to see the benefit of mplayer over mpv today.

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