mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by darby_nine on Saturday August 17, 2024 @09:05PM (#41279346)

> VLC is pretty bad and it shows the more you use it.

Compared to what? Such a statement is meaningless without comparison.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by opan on Saturday August 17, 2024 @09:55PM (#41279556)

Compared to mpv. Some would also say compared to mpc-hc.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by hollerith on Saturday August 17, 2024 @10:07PM (#41279594)

The first sentence on https://mpc-hc.org/ is, "MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else."

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by defrost on Saturday August 17, 2024 @11:22PM (#41279914)

Instead of MPC-HC v1.7.13 (2017) maybe try MPC-HC v2.3.4 (2024)

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

In many ways it's a display wrapper about codec components, the display part is in active maintainance and bug fix mode (last update two weeks ago) and the codecs are constantly being improved (and expanded as new ones emerge).

https://www.codecguide.com/

There are two or three MPC-HC spin offs that are tweaking the core to do new things.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by rocketvole on Sunday August 18, 2024 @12:18PM (#41283251)

it's annoying that the clsid fork isn't associated with the website- it adds a lot of confusion to what is probably the video player that compromises between user friendliness and customizability. It's usually the video player that I recommend to people because it seems beter than vlc and has a GUI for settings as opposed to mpv.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by account42 on Monday August 19, 2024 @07:06AM (#41289906)

This is one of the many reasons why forks should use a distinctive name to differentiate themselves. Just realeasing new versions with the same name as the upstream project is generally a dick move.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by SirMaster on Monday August 19, 2024 @11:33AM (#41291910)

I am pretty sure the dev (clsid2) worked on mpc-hc originally as well before.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by infofarmer on Saturday August 17, 2024 @11:06PM (#41279850)

search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by vharish on Sunday August 18, 2024 @12:45AM (#41280179)

I don't think the target audience are the same. Not so sure about this. Just my impression.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by darby_nine on Monday August 19, 2024 @05:02PM (#41294565)

> mpv

can you please explain what you mean with this acronym?

EDIT: this seems to correspond to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by opan on Thursday August 22, 2024 @05:22PM (#41324501)

mpv is the name of the actual program, I'm not aware of it standing for anything. MPlayer is an older project.

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