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The whole media playing world is just a weird place with lots of twists and turns, and lots of sharp edges. There is always a new fork, some new clever filter, or a new API spawning somewhere, nothing never stabilizing. And of course lots of things being subjective and/or hardware-dependent making finding the "best" solution difficult.
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mplayer and mplayer2 use the Windows codec libraries. Playing a video usually means having to learn about codec packs like ffdshow from Google searches and random internet forums, and then finding the legitimate website for the codec pack (not a linkspam site or a rehosting company like cnet who bundle Ask toolbar into the installer), then locating and downloading the codec pack on the (sometimes intentionally) badly…
Are you thinking of Media Player Classic? Mplayer/Mplayer2 use their own bundled ffmpeg as VLC does.
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Are you thinking of Media Player Classic? Mplayer/Mplayer2 use their own bundled ffmpeg as VLC does.
...I thought mplayer was media player classic...
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The playlist actually has a lot of options which are randomly buried in the settings. You can change settings so double-clicking a video file just adds it to the end of the playlist. Or you can make every new video open in its own new player. Like I said, feature creep is one of VLC's biggest problems.
Some but not all of the changes I make to the configuration (like key bindings in particular) don't take effect until I restart VLC. What the fuck??? http://forums.logitech.com/t5/G-Series-Gaming-Keyboards/G19-... "In VLC, as of 1.1.11, you have to go to interface, preferences, hotkeys, and doubleclick the GLOBAL hotkey you need to set. Press the media key on the keyboard, and it'll return but will act like nothing c…
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You're quite right. It's almost unusable on Windows in its default configuration. I particularly like how difficult it is to toggle full-screen playback with the keyboard. F11 makes it full screen, but doesn't hide the controls. Ctrl-H hides the controls, but also disables keyboard shortcuts ! So now, when you want to get out of full-screen mode, you have to know that you need to press Esc followed by F11. Not even d…
This must be some new weird change with the most recent version. The version I use has F as the fullscreen button, and either F or ESC will exit fullscreen. And the controls auto-hide. That's why I stick to the 1.1.5 version!
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Are you thinking of Media Player Classic? Mplayer/Mplayer2 use their own bundled ffmpeg as VLC does.
...I thought mplayer was media player classic...
I've been trying to use it after reading about it on reddit, but so far I've been unsucessful at getting mpv to do "real" fullscreen. I'm using XMonad with a xmobar at the top of the screen, and with all --fstype modes I've tried, it has always been laid over the actual video. Has anybody been able to get it to do fullscreen with xmonad?