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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by account42 on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:00AM (#41289540)
> VLC is amazing at its design purpose: being a rock solid video player. The GUI, the UX, and other things can be criticized, but I dare you to find another video player that will play just about anything, and without having to install external codec separately with weird licence.

MPV? You know, the subject of this post we are commenting on?

Or literally any FFMPEG-based player.

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Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player by maeln on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:20AM (#41310567)
MPV use some library from FFMpeg, it is not based on FFMpeg. And yes, VLC still beat MPV and MPLayer, especially at accuracy or reading partially broken files. Although the situation has changed a lot in the last 10 or so years, and they improved a lot. But don't talk to me about UX when the two other option are MPV & Mplayer...
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