> Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;)
VLC can too, if compiled correctly with the libplacebo dependency. It shares most of the shaders with mpv.
Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately I wasn't planning on compiling VLC myself, but maybe I should.
Re:The one who kept VLC free
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:43AM
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Interestingly...
I have a collection of subtitled videos from several years ago. When I obtained them, I watched them in VLC with no problems.
A year or two ago, I had the urge to watch them again, and I wasn't able to use VLC, because it could no longer display the subtitles correctly. This prompted me to start using mpv instead of VLC, for pretty much everything. But I'm still confused at how VLC could have lost the ability to play files it once handled perfectly.
I think there's been a lot of work in the past years on the subtitles display for VLC (but I might be entirely wrong).
I'm sure that if you still have those videos, the devs at videolan would be very happy to test them to repro that bug.
Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;) But for everything that isn't a full-range video, I usually prefer VLC. So thanks!