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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 Const-me »

GuB-42 wrote: post #54

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 reall…

> to replace it with something inferior

Media Foundation ain’t that bad. I coded some moderately advanced stuff with it, custom stream sources, custom transforms — it was fun, and it run well.

I can see how it was inferior back in 2007. The first version of MF was shipped with Vista, and Vista… Let’s just say many people were disappointed with it. Nowadays however, when you only need to support Windows 7+, MF is fine.

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

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Post by haasn »

glebm wrote: post #58
striking wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SMPlayer can barely even be considered an mpv front-end and I hope nobody who uses it will ever make an mpv bug report again. It's a gigantic pile of hacks from the MPlayer age, and it “interfaces” with mpv using the most horrible method possible (embedding the mpv window and sending keystrokes to it)

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

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Post by Nathalie45 »

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 Reagan45 »

problems wrote: post #52
striking wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by problems »

Reagan45 wrote: post #74
problems wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by NamTaf »

rossy wrote: post #46
striking wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Agreed, though unfortunately, every attempt to change them has resulted in bikeshedding and no real progress. See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/973 Now, the general consensus is that they should be changed gradually, rather than all at once. Some obviously bad keybindings have been removed this way (eg. Esc->quit.) If you create an issue for your most hated keybind, it can probably be changed.

I know I should probably raise this on the Github issue, and I'm posting this without having even looked at MPV yet to see if this is how it's already done or if there's any issues with this approach, but why not take the approach of 'profiles'? Ship with (at least) 2 profiles baked in - 'MPV legacy' and 'MPC-style'. Add more as desired. That way those who simply want to jump to a familiar system can choose MPC-style, those who want to stick with what they're familiar with from using MPV can, and the rest can customise as desired.

Any gradual changes just mean gradual changes to a keybind file. Anyone who doesn't like them can simply use their own keybind file from previous versions, or from their own modification.

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

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Post by ksec »

olegkikin wrote: post #45
kakarot wrote: post #36

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Not just the looks. It says right there in the source you provided that MPC-BE "not only looks better than MPC, but also performs faster"

MPC-HC is already so fast, I doubt that claim is even true. I just double-clocked on a video file after a cold boot, the UI shows up almost instantly, and the playback starts after around a second.

To all those asking why BE? It really has NOTHING to do with speed. To simply put, BE was well maintained and continuous bug fixing. From my perspective HC has seen the writing on the wall ever since BE forked.

Not only does it look better, it plays files better then HC by default. Not sure HC has improved since then, back in the day BE would handle AVI, rmvb, WMV, much better without the need of fiddling around with settings and filters.

MPC-BE is the only thing I really miss on Mac.

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

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Post by rossy »

NamTaf wrote: post #76
rossy wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, though unfortunately, every attempt to change them has resulted in bikeshedding and no real progress. See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/973 Now, the general consensus is that they should be changed gradually, rather than all at once. Some obviously bad keybindings have been removed this way (eg. Esc->quit.) If you create an issue for your most hated keybind, it can probably be changed.

I know I should probably raise this on the Github issue, and I'm posting this without having even looked at MPV yet to see if this is how it's already done or if there's any issues with this approach, but why not take the approach of 'profiles'? Ship with (at least) 2 profiles baked in - 'MPV legacy' and 'MPC-style'. Add more as desired. That way those who simply want to jump to a familiar system can choose MPC-style…

Yeah, that seems reasonable. We have one of these to restore MPlayer bindings: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/mplayer-in...

Though rather than being baked in, these bindings have to be manually copied over the user's input.conf. mpv's config profiles don't extend to input.conf at the moment.

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