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Damn. I remember all the debates on /a/ (4chan anime board) on what are the best options and presets... for watching anime. Looking back it was kind of silly but we were able to do that because the player was so well built. On Linux/macOS I use mpv - I recommend it!
Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/
Even on the Linux side I have seen a drop in the number of full blown media players being developed, they are mostly front ends to things like mpv and mplayer.
How can this come to an end :( - I am not a C/C++ dev. But I would like to support this project money wise if it would help?
$ brew install mpv
$ mpv ~/Media/my-movie.mp4
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why has this version been forked off?
For the looks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic#Black_Edi...
It says right there in the source you provided that MPC-BE "not only looks better than MPC, but also performs faster"
Damn. I remember all the debates on /a/ (4chan anime board) on what are the best options and presets... for watching anime. Looking back it was kind of silly but we were able to do that because the player was so well built. On Linux/macOS I use mpv - I recommend it!
MPC-HC is a superb media player but it is not surprising to see this happen. Interest in maintaining open source Windows applications written in C/Win32/C++/MFC is going to keep dropping as there are not as many people with the skills or motivation to do it. Especially for something as complex as a media player. Even on the Linux side I have seen a drop in the number of full blown media players being developed, they…
MPC-HC is a superb media player but it is not surprising to see this happen. Interest in maintaining open source Windows applications written in C/Win32/C++/MFC is going to keep dropping as there are not as many people with the skills or motivation to do it. Especially for something as complex as a media player. Even on the Linux side I have seen a drop in the number of full blown media players being developed, they…
Making front-ends to existing back-ends makes a lot of sense to me. I don't really see the advantage of writing a monolithic media player from scratch as opposed to leveraging existing back-ends.
I agree with you that there isn't much (if any) advantage to doing it all again with a new media player core. I would rather all the expertise is put into mpv to be honest and then let others build front ends that do all the extra bits.
Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/
The default keybinds are absolutely nonsensical, though.