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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by throwaway2037 on Sunday August 18, 2024 @10:47PM (#41287359) 

    > slowly losing relevance
I love this type of editorializing language. Ok, if VLC is "slowly losing relevance" (a claim for which you provide no evidence), what player is "slowly gaining relevance"?
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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by littlestymaar on Sunday August 18, 2024 @11:15PM (#41287484)
Everything that is provided by default by the OS.

Installing VLC used to be one of the first things people did on a new computer, including many non tech-savy people, along with a web browser that isn't IE/Edge.

Now the fraction who bother installing it is much smaller. The default video player is good enough for most usage (overall usage has declined anyway because of streaming).

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