Is there a GUI frontend like SMPlayer?
I found one, but I haven't tried it since I got used to the keyboard shortcuts, and it's also Windows only.
Baka MPlayer - http://bakamplayer.netii.net/index.php
mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
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Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
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> And unlike mplayer, mplayer2, wmp, and most other players out there, you don't have to goto some random website and download some random codec pack, and install it with who knows what malware. All the codecs are included with the program. You're absolutely right to tag that as FUD, because I have never had to download "random codecs" from "random codec packs" in order to get videos to play in MPlayer on Linux (I do…
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…
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Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
No, F11 is the only way documented in the menu to get full-screen playback. F is not documented anywhere in the player UI; instead, it's buried away in the keybinding section of the preferences. The whole point of showing accelerators in the menu is to enable keyboard shortcuts for frequent commands to be learned; that VLC doesn't do this consistently is, alone, an indictment of its UI.
F11 and Alt-Enter are generally the two idioms for getting full-screen behaviour on Windows. Both work in Media Player Classic. Alt-Enter comes from the old DOS box from Windows 3; I'm not sure, but I think IE 4 pioneered F11. In any case, F11 works with Firefox, Chrome and IE; Alt-Enter also works with IE, Mintty, etc.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#64I have been a VLC user on Windows for years. I've actually stuck with VLC 1.1.5 for 2 reasons: 1. It plays any local video I throw at it. Other people tell me "It doesn't play some of my videos" but I haven't seen this actually occur. Or when I do, it's because they're using a newer version of VLC which has removed support or changed processing. VLC has terrible license problems and awful feature creep. I had some .m…
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Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's so horrible about it? It looks like most media players. The playlist could use some love, but if you're only playing a single (long) video at a time it doesn't matter to much.
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.
Those are "options buried in the settings", quite the opposite of "feature creep". You've got to enable them, and doing so makes the application behave thew way that you want it to, and not be confined to the default configuration.
The programs that have a problem are the ones that dumb-down the UI to the point that it's impossible to deviate from the defaults.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#66It's great to see mpv talked about on HN. I started using uau's patches for MPlayer a while ago (mainly for mkv segment linking, which has already been mentioned in the comments here and is a feature that MPlayer-svn still lacks.) That set of patches got renamed to mplayer2 and since mplayer2 development ground to a halt, mpv was the logical next step.
Development is fast and the developers are friendly and helpful. It's exciting to see improvements in the accuracy and quality of the GL video output and, since I like to use the same video player on Windows and Linux, it's also nice to see much needed attention to detail in the Windows port, including support for Unicode filenames. Overall, mpv is probably my favourite media player and I recommend it to any MPlayer/mplayer2 user.
The lack of a GUI may be a problem for some users, but hopefully that's fixed soon. A new slave mode is planned that doesn't suffer from the problems of the old MPlayer one, which was always very incomplete and required GUI frontends to parse MPlayer output that was intended for users. There's also the possibility of using lua and libass to draw a minimal QuickTime-like on screen display with a seekbar.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#67I have been a VLC user on Windows for years. I've actually stuck with VLC 1.1.5 for 2 reasons: 1. It plays any local video I throw at it. Other people tell me "It doesn't play some of my videos" but I haven't seen this actually occur. Or when I do, it's because they're using a newer version of VLC which has removed support or changed processing. VLC has terrible license problems and awful feature creep. I had some .m…
Does VLC 1.1.5 support HI10P (10-bit H.264 video)? That would be one reason to upgrade, as many anime releases now use HI10P (http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/Hi10P).
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#68I have been a VLC user on Windows for years. I've actually stuck with VLC 1.1.5 for 2 reasons: 1. It plays any local video I throw at it. Other people tell me "It doesn't play some of my videos" but I haven't seen this actually occur. Or when I do, it's because they're using a newer version of VLC which has removed support or changed processing. VLC has terrible license problems and awful feature creep. I had some .m…
VLC may play lot of videos, but it has the most systematically terrible user interface of any program I have ever seen. Just absolutely horrible, on a level that could not possibly just the results of ignorance and carelessness, but it actually seems to optimized to actively fuck the user on purpose.
It is the iTunes of the open source media world. An abomination, at least it isn't as bad as Calibre.
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#69As a user this is all just a big mess. Mplayer2 had some nice improvements (does straight mplayer support mkv segment linking yet?) but also removed some important features (e.g. mencoder). (Side note: ffmpeg has been refusing patches to add new filters because they're working on a new filter infrastructure. For something like 4 years now). It's even worse if you're on windows and want to use a frontend as well. Here…
mencoder is an abomination. Unless you have an actual real-life use case where mencoder works and ffmpeg doesn't, use ffmpeg; practically everything else does, regardless of licensing (ffmpeg has a wall of shame, which I'm sure comprises only a small sample of infringers, on their site).
Re: mpv - a free and open-source general-purpose video player
#70Been using mpv for many months as my only video player on my laptop Archlinux setup and everything has been great. Been telling people to check it out and no single complaint has been given, and most have changed solely to mpv. The -opengl-hq option is a great option to easily get acceptable quality playback without the hassle. But even still, Windows is so much ahead in video playback by just a hobby of one guy (Mad…
Been using mpv the last few days, replacing mplayer2. It doesn't seem to be activating VDPAU correctly despite using the sample config file as a template. The console output clearly indicates VDPAU vo, but I still get 40% CPU usage with HD footage and occasional slowdowns (including the slightly-modified classic MPlayer "your computer is too slow to play this!" message) while playing videos.
While mpv sounds like a good thing in theory, I might just remain content with mplayer2. Now at least a single point has been given.