On macOS there is IINA which uses mpv under the hood but with a more native GUI.
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
#52i used to be able to go frame by frame with quicktime.. is there any modern video player that can actually do this?
mpv does it! Period key (.) for next frame, comma (,) for previous. Super handy.
You can also hold those keys to play normally at the speed set with [ and ], so you can actually play the video in reverse and slow motion or whatever. Be aware that it's usually very intensive on cpu time (and maybe gpu decoding if applicable) since it has to usually go back a whole keyframe and compute all frames between while doing that, which may result in less than smooth playback on some videos.
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#53If anyone is looking for the mpv core with a GUI on macOS, take a look at IINA https://github.com/iina/iina
It’s also the only way I can play HDR on macOS that looks decent (besides the native players like QuickLook/Quicktime/Photos).
I went into a rabbit hole recently playing iPhone-recorded Dolby hdr videos and tweaking all the various mpv settings but nothing really looked the same as in Photos. Iina is closer but also not exactly the same as the native players.
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#54If you're on Linux, don't forget to enable hardware acceleration by adding hwdec=auto to mpv.conf. Works with AMD/Intel/NVIDIA.
https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/01/10/hardware-acceleratio...
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#55This 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.
This has long since been the case, even back in the MPlayer days in the early 2000s.
I'm not really sure why this is the case though, because I believe both largely rely on the same libraries for many codecs.
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#56Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io
Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#57Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player
That is... not a glowing endorsement. I've had more bugs and player failures from Plex than any other media software I've ever used.
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#58Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player
That is... not a glowing endorsement. I've had more bugs and player failures from Plex than any other media software I've ever used.
Streaming or player errors? Plex has basically never failed to play any video I've ever given it, but a bad connection can totally ruin streaming. I wish they would implement pause and allow to buffer.
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#59The best media player available on linux. The worst GUI (none) out of the box. Bearable after tinkering a bit with configs.
try celluloid https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid
Re: Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
#60Happy VLC user here, but might give this a try, I want to find a better UX with the player controls, like a way to pin the controls bar when full screen (it disappears after some seconds), a 10s forward/backwards control, bigger buttons, less bloated settings, less features that I don't use like radio and other stuff.
But one thing that confused me seeing that homepage is that it shows a player UI screenshot, but it says " mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line", isn't just for the command line right? I assume you can install it as an app and it has an UI like VLC. (I'm on the phone rn will check it on my PC later).