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

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Post by galad87 »

radicality wrote: post #53
tbeseda wrote: post #48

If 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.

iPhone-recorded Dolby Vision videos uses an additional metadata called "Ambient Viewing Environment", and I don't think any third-party player supports it at the moment.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3145-h...

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

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Post by mzajc »

Sporktacular wrote: post #338
natrys wrote: post #337

This is S tier software. I remember using this on a laptop with 2gb RAM years ago. The combo of mpv and youtube-dl could deal with large number of sites (not just youtube), when even the browser struggled.

I think youtube-dl is no longer under development. Any suggestions for an alternative?

youtube-dl is still under development (last commit at the time of writing was 2 weeks ago), but there are forks with more features, such as yt-dlp.[1]

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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

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Post by natrys »

Sporktacular wrote: post #338
natrys wrote: post #337

This is S tier software. I remember using this on a laptop with 2gb RAM years ago. The combo of mpv and youtube-dl could deal with large number of sites (not just youtube), when even the browser struggled.

I think youtube-dl is no longer under development. Any suggestions for an alternative?

yt-dlp[1] has now taken on that mantle. I think mpv nowadays just recognises yt-dlp as the de facto alternative, but if yours doesn't then you can just put this in your mpv.conf:

    script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp
[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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

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Post by hollerith »

sebastos wrote: post #222
j1elo wrote: post #118

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Wow those answers are indeed funny. I agree that as an OSS dev/maintainer, it's easy to fall on the vice of over-generalization and crusade for the perfect solution, and it feels that's exactly what happened there. > this feature is algorithmically impossible > You're just looking at one specific video, not the general problem. > is not generally possible. As a fellow multimedia dev, man, who cares? Sometimes we forg…

Disagree! VLC is what it is today because the authors understood video standards enough to make the _right_ abstractions that could generalize to ~every video format ever. That is no easy task. Video container standards are utterly perverse, and seem to delight in stomping over even the most innocent intuitions about what you would expect to find in a stream of bits that purports to contain "video". They often refuse…

I wonder: Is this why vlc delays for 5 to 10 seconds every time I use the "skip backward" functionality on my iPad, where other players don't have that delay?

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

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Post by mzajc »

NavinF wrote: post #147
Venn1 wrote: post #54

If 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...

Why would that be disabled by default?

It breaks on suspend-to-memory for my system with a nVIDIA GPU. I assume that's a driver problem, though.

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

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Post by immibis »

sph wrote: post #281
sebastos wrote: post #222

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Disagree! VLC is what it is today because the authors understood video standards enough to make the _right_ abstractions that could generalize to ~every video format ever. That is no easy task. Video container standards are utterly perverse, and seem to delight in stomping over even the most innocent intuitions about what you would expect to find in a stream of bits that purports to contain "video". They often refuse…

You speak as if VLC is the pinnacle of video player technology. I know it is an open source darling, but it's been a buggy, overengineered mess since forever, which is why many use alternatives as mpv, IINA when I used macOS, SMplayer, etc. On fact, with all due respect, I never understood why VLC was so widely praised. It is the only player to stutter for me on Windows, to get lost in its settings page, to have a te…

I see VLC as the swiss army knife that can play anything you throw at it, no matter how weird. I see mpv as a more streamlined, less abstract implementation that supports many fewer options, but can contain special-case code paths for hardware acceleration, for example. Hardware-accelerated playback on my Raspberry Pi 3 works out of the box with mpv but requires some special trick or doesn't work at all in vlc. I assume mpv's design allows it to contain a special-case code path when you happen to be playing something compatible with a Raspberry Pi's GPU on a Raspberry Pi.

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

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Post by Asraelite »

sph wrote: post #283
user3939382 wrote: post #171

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That strikes me as such a strange statement, I’ve always considered it to be among the most impressive OSS projects out there. It tackles enormous complexity, works everywhere, and has a trove of a million hidden features. For example, I use it to headless play streams from CLI.

> has a trove of a million hidden features No software person would find this praiseworthy. A million features = two million bugs, and indeed it shows.

Speak for yourself. I would much rather have a buggy feature than no feature at all.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Sporktacular wrote: post #338
natrys wrote: post #337

This is S tier software. I remember using this on a laptop with 2gb RAM years ago. The combo of mpv and youtube-dl could deal with large number of sites (not just youtube), when even the browser struggled.

I think youtube-dl is no longer under development. Any suggestions for an alternative?

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

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Post by littlestymaar »

badsectoracula wrote: post #299
littlestymaar wrote: post #288

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> VLC is what it is today because the authors understood video standards enough to make the _right_ abstractions that could generalize to ~every video format ever. VLC used to be the dominant video player for this reason, but then everything has crystallized around h.264 (and h.265) which made the breadth of codec support not as important anymore, making VLC slowly losing relevance because they aren't focused on user…

> h.264 (and h.265) which made the breadth of codec support not as important anymore You say that but just yesterday i used VLC to play some old videos i had which AFAICT were in RealVideo format or something like that. And i transcode everything i want to watch in my Android tablet (where i also use VLC) to mpeg2 because the tablet is ancient (10+ years old) and can't handle anything newer, so i am glad that VLC a)…

I'm not saying it's useless. But now it's situational, which wasn't the case in the 2000s.

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

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Post by stavros »

simoncion wrote: post #234
racked wrote: post #201

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I actually thought that last paragraph really undermined his case, because rather than substantiating like he did before, here he goes all out and just insults whoever he can think of; people who take it in the ass, greybeards, the Chinese, listeners of bland music... I get him though. It's one of those writings from a foul mood. There was probably more going on in his life than some trouble dealing with locales.

> ...here he goes all out and just insults whoever he can think of... No, he observes that software devs as a group, and as a culture tend to produce worse results than incredibly-distracted and certainly-fatally-intoxicated simians banging on typewriters. It's a bit of hyperbole, but the overall state of software is absolutely dire. > ...the Chinese, listeners of bland music... In some-to-much of the world, it's pre…

> much of which has historically been made in China

The "Chinese crap" argument fails to realize that yes, all cheap crap is made in China, because everything is made in China.

Nobody looks at an iPhone and says "ugh, Chinese crap".

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