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Yes, it is. I don't understand the cult of VLC to be honest. There are better media players, at least on Windows.
VLC plays pretty much any media file from pretty much anywhere it can be stored, and it's got a pretty standard interface, so folks find it easy to understand how to operate it. That's it. No real "cult" situation there. Just an app that does it's job well. Same is true of mpv, but some people will prefer it (as I do) because it's lightweight and clean and quick (and all the stuff people also like about VLC).
99% of the time I use it, I just want to play a local video file or watch a web radio stream. I don't want to create a playlist or browse my computer using a built-in media library, yet both are front and center in VLC.
Happy 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…
mpv has a UI for things like seeking forward and backward, displaying info, etc. But you typically start it like: % mpv file.mp4 That's what they mean. It doesn't really have things such as "File → Open" like VLC has. At least not out of the box, but it's scriptable with Lua and there are scripts and even entire "alternative frontends" that can do this. It can also be remote controlled via a socket; I built an audio…
Huh, it does for me (in the menu bar) on macOS! I guess that's platform-specific then?
It sounds stupid but the killer feature for me is possibility to have multiple subtitles visible, all easily configurable with a few keybinds (track, offset, position, size etc). No streaming service provides this, and they actively omit subtitle languages that aren't "relevant" to your geolocation. I cannot respect a service like that.
+1. This is a fantastic feature. I haven't even bothered learning the keybindings (perhaps I should), I just start with --sid1= and --sid2= and it works well enough. Neither me nor my significant other are native English speakers, but we have different native languages. I'm comfortable enough with English, but like having English subtitles since I have a hard time with some dialects and occasionally just miss a word…
If there is no black bar, you could get one of those long narrow LCDs off AliExpress, set up the driver, add it as an X display with the right positioning... and then drag the mpv window across that and the TV. Should work. Those little LCDs are just silly expensive though...
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.
Worth noting that the author of that commit has not been associated with mpv development in years.
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VLC is *amazing* at its design purpose: being a rock solid video player. The GUI, the UX, and other things can be criticized, but I dare you to find another video player that will play just about *anything*, and without having to install external codec separately with weird licence. You can throw at it a broken mp4 file, a https url with basic auth, a weirdly encoded video, a DVD full of scratches, etc, chances are V…
> VLC is amazing at its design purpose: being a rock solid video player. The GUI, the UX, and other things can be criticized, but I dare you to find another video player that will play just about anything , and without having to install external codec separately with weird licence. MPV? You know, the subject of this post we are commenting on? Or literally any FFMPEG-based player.
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You wouldn't have to any more than you need 0 through N frames in memory to calculate frame N+1. Whatever your decoding state completes at frame N can be considered a key frame.
decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either case (CPU or GPU)
Edit: this doesn’t have to happen synchronously either, it can occur in a background thread or passively.
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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