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

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post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

If you’ve never written software that needed to be used by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, then sure, it could seem that way.

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

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post #538

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.

What does an industrial minipc offer that an RPI doesn't in this case? :)

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

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post #538

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.

What does an industrial minipc offer that an RPI doesn't in this case? :)

It's x86; it works better for hardware accelerated video playback via VAAPI due to FOSS Intel drivers; because it's fully integrated out of the box, its total cost is a bit cheaper than an RPi, and as a single unit with no assembly, it's quite a bit faster to deploy.

I'm using these: https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Fanless-Computer-Ethernet-PCG02/.... Works great with Linux, and has a very customizable BIOS.

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

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This is an extremely venerable project, formerly known as mplayer. There are half a million commits going back to 2001, and that’s just from when the CVS repo was converted to Subversion. streamlink and mpv on a fanless Minix z100 running Ubuntu was a nigh-on perfect Olympics experience. https://streamlink.github.io/ https://www.minix.com.hk/products/z100-0db-fanless-n100-mini...

I don't think mplayer and mpv are the same thing. It forked mplayer (among others), but mplayer is still its own thing.

I switch from mplayer to mpv some years ago but I don't remember when. I use it daily as my media center player.

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

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post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that feature would introduce a need to reactor or re-architect major parts of the the logic since everything has been built with the purpose of the playing video forwards supporting as many codecs as possible. Then, yes. And as a long time user of vlc video playback (and transcoding) I have never wanted to go back one frame. I always wanted to go back like 15 seconds, and that has worked forever.

Sure but that's completely different than claiming that it's out of scope or technically impossible. And that's completely different than your earlier example of implementing 3d rendering or something like that. They could just say that they don't want to do the feature, I think the pain point here is the claim that it is not possible.

Of course it's possible, that's my point. Both the maintainer and the requestors should avoid that word. The real questions are. Is it reasonable? Is it worth it? Is it along the lines of the problems the software set out to solve?

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

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post #175

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> VLC is pretty bad and it shows the more you use it. Compared to what? Such a statement is meaningless without comparison.

Compared to mpv. Some would also say compared to mpc-hc.

> mpv

can you please explain what you mean with this acronym?

EDIT: this seems to correspond to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

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

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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...

Yeah, I just pacman-installed mpv and tried running it on a 4k video. My CPU fan immediately kicked on, and top showed multiple cores getting involved. Kept scrolling this HN post to learn about hwdec=auto. Coming from mplayer and vlc my immediate question is, "What tradeoffs are the maintainers trying to make by not making this the default?"

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

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post #452
post #445

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So you’re saying going forward 1 frame in a video is in the scope, but going back 1 frame is out of scope. Weird stance.

If that feature would introduce a need to reactor or re-architect major parts of the the logic since everything has been built with the purpose of the playing video forwards supporting as many codecs as possible. Then, yes. And as a long time user of vlc video playback (and transcoding) I have never wanted to go back one frame. I always wanted to go back like 15 seconds, and that has worked forever.

So you've never paused a video to figure out what's going on with a transition of piece of motion, or to try to get the perfect screenshot? OK, but that doesn't make other people's way of using video players invalid.
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