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MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by rossy »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #49
greyskull wrote: post #42

MPC-HC was always my go-to. Starts up instantly and the performance was always superb, much better than VLC in seeking. I don't know what it is, but more often than not, VLC pauses for a moment when seeking to a random part of the file, while MPC-HC has always been instant. I suppose I'll try out MPV.

VLC in a nutshell: Rebuilding fonts... Fortunately, I believe MPC-HC will still likely be updated if necessary, or forked and updated if need be. I know I haven't updated mine in years and haven't had any problems.

> VLC in a nutshell: Rebuilding fonts...

I wonder if this is still a problem (I haven't used VLC in a while.) That message box is shown when fontconfig rebuilds its font cache, but libass has been able to run without fontconfig since 0.13.0 (October 2015.) I guess it depends on whether the current release version of VLC still needs it.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by problems »

striking wrote: post #40
NuDinNou wrote: post #26

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/

I second MPV. All you need for watching video, with none of the bloat of VLC. The default keybinds are absolutely nonsensical, though.

Yeah, I hate that they changed perfectly food mplayer binds to make less sense.

Fortunately there's a file included that will restore the original behaviors.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by armada651 »

dtech wrote: post #15
ksec wrote: post #13

I have been using MPC-BE for many many years and it is being actively developed with developers feedback and response on Doom9. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

Why has this version been forked off?

Like many forks in open-source, MPC-BE was forked off because of an internal conflict in the team. MPC-BE is made up of all the Russian developers from the former MPC-HC team after a complete breakdown in communication (i.e. drama).

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by GuB-42 »

Is it dead or done?

MPC-HC is just a DirectShow frontend, or at least, that's how I used it. Filters do most of the work. And no one seems to care about DirectShow anymore but that's mostly because everything works fine.

It will die eventually, because Microsoft is trying hard to kill DirectShow (to replace it with something inferior...) and the opensource guys mostly go to mplayer, but for now, updates are not really necessary.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by armada651 »

olegkikin wrote: post #16
dtech wrote: post #15

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 wasn't just the looks, that was more like the "straw that broke the camel's back".

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Jessica454 »

rakshithbekal wrote: post #32
NuDinNou wrote: post #26

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/

Does not have NGU

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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by glebm »

striking wrote: post #40
NuDinNou wrote: post #26

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/

I second MPV. All you need for watching video, with none of the bloat of VLC. The default keybinds are absolutely nonsensical, though.

SMPlayer is a great frontend for mpv.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Zyst »

ldjb wrote: post #47
sergiotapia wrote: post #35

Those looking for a great alternative try using MPV. https://mpv.io/ $ brew install mpv $ mpv ~/Media/my-movie.mp4 And you're off!

Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS? MPV is indeed a good alternative, though.

EDIT: I just realized you said "Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS?" which threw me off.

I am currently on Windows and use MPV, I don't see why it should be exclusive in any way.

The dotfiles are compatible, and same goes for lua scripts. So there's no trade off at all that I've found. And it's nice to be able to just clone my dotfiles and have it work in OS X, and same for Windows.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by ldjb »

Zyst wrote: post #59
ldjb wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS? MPV is indeed a good alternative, though.

EDIT: I just realized you said "Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS?" which threw me off. I am currently on Windows and use MPV, I don't see why it should be exclusive in any way. The dotfiles are compatible, and same goes for lua scripts. So there's no trade off at all that I've found. And it's nice to be able to just clone my dotfiles and have it work in OS X, and same for Windows.

I agree. MPV is very customisable, and it's great to have a video player that works just how you want it, regardless of the system you're using.

EDIT: Yeah, I was just pointing out the fact that, if you're using MPC-HC, then you're probably using Windows. In which case, whilst MPV is a good alternative, you wouldn't be installing it with (Home)brew, which is a package manager for macOS.

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