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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 account42 »

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

I wish seeking word work better in this mode though. There is no reason seecon should freeze the player for minutes or indefinitely if the whole video can be downloaded from start to finish in seconds.

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

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Post by jbverschoor »

borski wrote: post #481
jbverschoor wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d say it has to do with not willing to duplicate data. On paper forms, it is simple. Why can’t it be in a digital form?

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-software-development-task-esti...

That article means: inexperience and unprofessional. Sounds about right.

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

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Post by account42 »

nagisa wrote: post #264
vocx2tx wrote: post #36

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

I have found this not to be as straightforward as this. In particular: 1. Although `yt-dlp` consistently is able to download videos at link speed (even when the said link is in multi-gig range!), streaming the video through `mpv` will not work as well and some videos would buffer every couple chunks. But that was in the past… 2. With recent changes to how videos are served and "protected", I'm still able to download…

> 1. Although `yt-dlp` consistently is able to download videos at link speed (even when the said link is in multi-gig range!), streaming the video through `mpv` will not work as well and some videos would buffer every couple chunks. But that was in the past…

I still get this with YouTube from time to time. Works with some videos, others are unwatchable. Seeking also generally seems broke and is often slower than downloading even the whole video.

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

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Post by dikei »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #486
dikei wrote: post #266

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mplayer was forked into mplayer2, which in turn was forked into mpv Though AFAIK, most of the rendering code behind mpv has been entirely rewritten.

What was the cause of the fork? An unresolvable internal debate? I am curious to know more about the history.

I'll refer you to the MPV FAQ for historical context.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#how-is-mpv-relate...

There were lots of drama in the media player scene. Even "wm4" the original maintainer, who forked mplayer2 into mpv, is no longer with the project: he deleted his Github account and disappeared.

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

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Post by EffrafaxOfWug »

nagisa wrote: post #264
vocx2tx wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have found this not to be as straightforward as this. In particular: 1. Although `yt-dlp` consistently is able to download videos at link speed (even when the said link is in multi-gig range!), streaming the video through `mpv` will not work as well and some videos would buffer every couple chunks. But that was in the past… 2. With recent changes to how videos are served and "protected", I'm still able to download…

I think the issue with buffering on some videos is because of bad DASH support https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7033

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

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Post by ivanjermakov »

account42 wrote: post #531
ivanjermakov wrote: post #26

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

I wish seeking word work better in this mode though. There is no reason seecon should freeze the player for minutes or indefinitely if the whole video can be downloaded from start to finish in seconds.

I agree. With decent bandwidth it's more convenient to first download video with yt-dlp and then play it with mpv

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

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Post by Gormo »

One of the nice things about MPV is that you can apply FFMpeg filters at playback, allowing you to use a wide range of transformations on a source video without having to re-render it for each variation.

We're using inexpensive industrial mini-PCs, Alpine Linux, and MPV as a custom digital signage solution at my company, and centrally managing them via Ansible.

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

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Post by SirMaster »

rafaelgoncalves wrote: post #135
xwall wrote: post #76

Does anyone here know more features that MPV offers that VLC and MPC don't, considering they are all free and open-source?

Like anothers comments said, mpv has some awesome native hw decoding and you can play frame by frame, previous and next, vlc you can only do next [1] (awesome thread btw). :) And mpc/mpc-hc is discontinued [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278203 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277818

mpc-hc is not discontinued.

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Plus there is also mpc-be which is actively developed and pretty much the same.

https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE

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

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Post by SirMaster »

account42 wrote: post #513
rocketvole wrote: post #432

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it's annoying that the clsid fork isn't associated with the website- it adds a lot of confusion to what is probably the video player that compromises between user friendliness and customizability. It's usually the video player that I recommend to people because it seems beter than vlc and has a GUI for settings as opposed to mpv.

This is one of the many reasons why forks should use a distinctive name to differentiate themselves. Just realeasing new versions with the same name as the upstream project is generally a dick move.

I am pretty sure the dev (clsid2) worked on mpc-hc originally as well before.
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