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

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

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Post by Agingcoder »

I didn’t know mplayer had been forked - this looks good to me. The primary reason why I used mplayer in the early 2000s was performance, both in terms of cpu and for lack of a better word ‘ smoothness ‘.

Basically all other players seemed to produce choppy videos ( including regular dvd players ) but mplayer didn’t ( and there was no motion interpolation). A friend of mine told me that mplayer was very accurate ( ie each frame lasted exactly the same duration), unlike most players on the market at the time and this explained the ‘smooth’ feeling.

Is this smoothness advantage still the case ? Would anyone know why it felt like that years ago ?

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

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Post by ivann »

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34
baal80spam wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is. I don't understand the cult of VLC to be honest. There are better media players, at least on Windows.

I do use MPC-HC on Windows, but it's no longer under development :'( IIRC it can't do AV1.

There is a fork that's still under development [1], or you can use mpc-be [2].

[1] https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/ [2] https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE

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

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Post by t-3 »

My favorite thing about mpv is that it works under the console using framebuffer or drm. This can be used with configuration or scripting for image viewing, reading pdfs, and more without needing needing a lot of specialized tools, especially on non-linux platforms where graphical framebuffer tools aren't available. Tmux +(e)links + mpv can nearly completely obviate the need for a graphical environment and removes a lot of distracting things from view.

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

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Post by HPsquared »

Can it do smooth scrubbing (i.e. scrolling the progress bar)?

So many media players only show the key frames when scrubbing, making it a much less pleasant experience. Some mobile phones (Apple, Samsung) built-in media players seem to do it nicely, but I've never found a desktop media player that does it (VLC can't).

Probably would require a lot of extra decoding behind the scenes to extract all the frames, but worth it on a modern machine.

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

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Post by jcelerier »

Agingcoder wrote: post #41

I didn’t know mplayer had been forked - this looks good to me. The primary reason why I used mplayer in the early 2000s was performance, both in terms of cpu and for lack of a better word ‘ smoothness ‘. Basically all other players seemed to produce choppy videos ( including regular dvd players ) but mplayer didn’t ( and there was no motion interpolation). A friend of mine told me that mplayer was very accurate ( ie…

It's impossible for video players to be exactly accurate on normal monitors as most computer monitors don't handle movie frame rates. Either a frame gets skipped or elongated here and there, audio get resampled while video speed changes, etc. but there's definitely no silver bullet due to imperfect hardware not matching movie data formats

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

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Post by gioo »

mpv is awesome. Shout-out, in no particular order, to:

- Seeds of Might/JySzE's base `mpv.conf`[1]

- uosc, a feature-rich but still minimalist UI[2]

- thumbfast, a fast thumbnailer to be used with uosc or another custom UI[3]

- Eisa01's SmartSkip, which allows to skip intros & more (audio-based)[4]

[1] Windows: https://gist.github.com/JySzE/db4149cad726b3b6955dca8d47a197..., macOS: https://gist.github.com/JySzE/34ee131da3974811a9469e1e3b7d4d... [2] https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc [3] https://github.com/po5/thumbfast [4] https://github.com/Eisa01/mpv-scripts#smartskip

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

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Post by arp242 »

HPsquared wrote: post #44

Can it do smooth scrubbing (i.e. scrolling the progress bar)? So many media players only show the key frames when scrubbing, making it a much less pleasant experience. Some mobile phones (Apple, Samsung) built-in media players seem to do it nicely, but I've never found a desktop media player that does it (VLC can't). Probably would require a lot of extra decoding behind the scenes to extract all the frames, but worth…

I don't really know what "scrubbing" is, but If you add "exact" to seek then it will use exact (non-keyframe) seeks. I think that's what you want? For example from my input.conf:

  Right            seek  5                    # In seconds; these are limited by keyframes
  Left             seek -5
  Shift+Right      seek  2 exact              # Smaller non-keyframe-limited, seeks with shift
  Shift+Left       seek -2 exact
Obviously, this is slower. Sometimes much slower (depending on the file).
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