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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 Maken »

racked wrote: post #201
telegtron wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Loved the last paragraph of the long, justified rant. Hilarious: “All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.”

I actually thought that last paragraph really undermined his case, because rather than substantiating like he did before, here he goes all out and just insults whoever he can think of; people who take it in the ass, greybeards, the Chinese, listeners of bland music... I get him though. It's one of those writings from a foul mood. There was probably more going on in his life than some trouble dealing with locales.

To be fair, he has other issues than dealing with C locales. The author of that commit used to be the main developer behind mpv, until he decided to delete all support for GNOME in a single commit.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Gormo wrote: post #544
lillecarl wrote: post #542

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What does an industrial minipc offer that an RPI doesn't in this case? :)

It's x86; it works better for hardware accelerated video playback via VAAPI due to FOSS Intel drivers; because it's fully integrated out of the box, its total cost is a bit cheaper than an RPi, and as a single unit with no assembly, it's quite a bit faster to deploy. I'm using these: https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Fanless-Computer-Ethernet-PCG02/... . Works great with Linux, and has a very customizable BIOS.

Neat. How to get without Windows?

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

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Post by iforgotpassword »

Maken wrote: post #551
racked wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually thought that last paragraph really undermined his case, because rather than substantiating like he did before, here he goes all out and just insults whoever he can think of; people who take it in the ass, greybeards, the Chinese, listeners of bland music... I get him though. It's one of those writings from a foul mood. There was probably more going on in his life than some trouble dealing with locales.

To be fair, he has other issues than dealing with C locales. The author of that commit used to be the main developer behind mpv, until he decided to delete all support for GNOME in a single commit.

That gnome even needs special support says it all. Does the commit have a similarly funny commit message?

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

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Post by valenceelectron »

Thaxll wrote: post #410
literallycancer wrote: post #393

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If your distro has outdated packages, that's a problem with your distro. You can always just open files with a CLI if you want to see the error messages. What do you mean can't drag and drop on a window? That's literally how you add subtitles or open a file if you opened mpv from the shortcut, rather than by opening a file.

None of the distro keeps package up to date with mpv. Only rolling one are probably updated. Adding a file does not enqueued them, it just open it and play it right away.

Hold shift while dropping the file to enqueue it. At least on macOS that works.

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

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Post by valenceelectron »

Thaxll wrote: post #358

MPV is great for powerusers, for the vast majority of people just use VLC. I used both over the year and there are still things that are really annoying in mpv: - you can't render on a Chromecast - opening a file that does not work does nothing, you don't know what's happening, is the file corrupted, is the codec not supported ?? - the no ui idea is nice for opening a single file, but then you go to the rabbithole of…

>- opening a file that does not work does nothing, you don't know what's happening, is the file corrupted, is the codec not supported ??

You could open the console to see errors. https://mpv.io/manual/master/#console

>- the no ui idea is nice for opening a single file, but then you go to the rabbithole of millions of settings / config to do anything more complicated, playlists? ( why can't I drag and drop on the window )

I cannot relate to that. "ad-hoc" playlists or even adding more files while some are already playing works fine for me on macOS. There's a chance the built-in UI differs between operating systems, not sure.

>- it's hard to compile, so it's up to you to find up to date version on your distro

I consider that hardly the fault of the mpv project. Other than that, there are usually third-party providers for mpv binaries.

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

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Post by Gormo »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #552
Gormo wrote: post #544

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's x86; it works better for hardware accelerated video playback via VAAPI due to FOSS Intel drivers; because it's fully integrated out of the box, its total cost is a bit cheaper than an RPi, and as a single unit with no assembly, it's quite a bit faster to deploy. I'm using these: https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Fanless-Computer-Ethernet-PCG02/... . Works great with Linux, and has a very customizable BIOS.

Neat. How to get without Windows?

Haven't seen it available without preinstalled Windows, but even with that, the price is good, and it's easy enough to wipe it and install Linux.

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

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Post by immibis »

wrasee wrote: post #335
marcus_holmes wrote: post #232

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Because it's an open-source project, not commercial software. In your job, you have to special-case some things because the alternative is not delivering what the boss wants. Regardless of the problems this may cause, or how much tech debt it generates - those are (in the end) business decisions, and while you can make a case to the boss that implementing the special case feature is going to cause huge problems, it's…

But he didn't "just" say no: > If it's so easy, why are you not doing it? Talk is cheap. > I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers. I'd say that is pretty toxic. Specifically, that is no way to talk about other volunteer developers that contribute their time. It is precisely the kind of language that keeps people away from contributing to open sou…

It may be slightly rude but it's also correct and it's something that not enough people realize, so they need ot be told. If you want something done, you can ask, but if the answer is no, you have to do it yourself. That's reality in FOSS.

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

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Post by ashconnor »

Love the message when attempting to open a multi-volume rar video.

[libarchive] This appears to be a multi-volume archive.

[libarchive] Support is not very good due to libarchive limitations.

[libarchive] There are known cases of libarchive crashing mpv on these.

[libarchive] This is also an excessively inefficient and stupid way to distribute

[libarchive] media files. People creating them should rethink this.

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

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Post by NavinF »

krzys wrote: post #316
NavinF wrote: post #147

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Why would that be disabled by default?

If you autodetect hw accel, even the slowest underpowered gpu might get returned, which could result in worstened user experience compared to just using cpu.

That's never been an issue on Windows or macOS. Apps only use the GPU if it's new enough

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

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Post by NavinF »

diggan wrote: post #158
NavinF wrote: post #147

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Why would that be disabled by default?

Doesn't work on all systems, I presume. Better to default to something that definitely works everywhere. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/a3baf94ab9f3b43a8027d... Would be appropriate to have true/false/auto instead of auto==true though, so auto wouldn't use it unless it confirmed to be working.

Still, isn't this bizarre? Over the last couple of decades using Windows and macOS across many machines, I've encountered one time I had to mess with settings like this. That's the time I temporarily disabled hw accel in chrome so I could screenshare and watch a show with someone.

Meanwhile on Linux you gotta configure every app one at a time because sane defaults and auto configuration weren't invented here.

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