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

Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by Levitating on Sunday August 18, 2024 @07:08PM (#41286289)

VLC is able to abstract over a ton of extremely complicated codecs by providing some common tools that work for all of them.

I guess if VLC has a feature, you can always expect it to work. That's their design choice. There's nothing "COMPLETELY WRONG" about that.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by spoaceman7777 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @07:55PM (#41286550)

The most entertaining part of this thread is that VLC is actually in the process of replacing its backend with the mpv-derived libplacebo.

In the end, VLC has admitted defeat

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by account42 on Monday August 19, 2024 @07:24AM (#41290020)

Both use FFMPEG anyway so it's not like VLC's codec abstraction was really something that sets it apart.

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