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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by tumult on Sunday August 18, 2024 @01:52AM (#41280388)
VLC doesn't have perfect compatibility. I think it worked correctly on random video files less frequently than mpv the last time I tried it. And mpv can actually step forward and back frame by frame.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by ruszki on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:44AM (#41280610)
I found MPV because VLC was unreliable. Seeking was especially crazy sometimes, and not that I couldn’t seek to the exact moment, but I couldn’t seek at all. Even displaying was broken sometimes regardless of file types. I had none of these issues with MPV for the same files.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by neckro23 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:03AM (#41280677)
VLC is sometimes so unreliable for me, especially when seeking or frame-stepping, that it stops responding to playback commands entirely (although it pretends to still work) and I have to kill the zombie process before I can even re-open the file and try again.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by 77pt77 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:13AM (#41280472)
So can mplayer and did that way before mpv could.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by dikei on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:08AM (#41280693)
mplayer was forked into mplayer2, which in turn was forked into mpv

Though AFAIK, most of the rendering code behind mpv has been entirely rewritten.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by throwaway2037 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @10:40PM (#41287328)
What was the cause of the fork? An unresolvable internal debate? I am curious to know more about the history.
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by dikei on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:48AM (#41291036)
I'll refer you to the MPV FAQ for historical context.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#how-is-mpv-relate...

There were lots of drama in the media player scene. Even "wm4" the original maintainer, who forked mplayer2 into mpv, is no longer with the project: he deleted his Github account and disappeared.

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