There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing – VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn’t)
I switched to MPV recently for the same reasons. If it had support for playing disc media it would be the absolute king of video players imo.
It has support for it tho.
If so, then it definitely doesn’t make it as obvious as VLC does. but good to know I suppose
edit: it only plays whatever the largest file it can find on the disc is, no menu / iso support. womp womp
Nothing streams better than RealPlayer
Now that takes me back
I am glad both MPV and VLC exist.
vlc can even play incomplete video files - it’ll just play the parts of it, that will play.
It’ll even play videos that are actively downloading
^ Found a fellow old school torrent user 😆
I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything
I was missing Codecs in my Linux install. VLC couldn’t play a single file
Reinstall it.
Try the flatpak, it should come with all the codecs
Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.
Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.
I don’t even know what icon is on the right
MPC: All my homies hate wmp.
I think it’s Windows Media player
Relabelled as Movies
I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.
what are you watching that’s uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I’ve never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can’t play that lol.
Yeah, videos from my phone. Most things aren’t an issue.
Record the video in lower resolution from your phone unless you actually need the high resolution.
Is it vlc struggling or your entire PC?
I has one boss who wanted to stream 2 4K60 cctv feeds to his laptop while in the office. Needless to say his laptop struggles with a single 4K I didn’t even bother setting up the second feed.
Other video players work fine. My PC is fairly new.
Run a transcoder in “the cloud” (another PC in the room) and then it’s possible
Another fun use for ffmpeg!
VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.
I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.
I’ve moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.
This is news to me. What happened with VLC?
I don’t know what they mean, but to me it didn’t become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.
Hummm, Don’t get me wrong I like the command line when I work on my GUI-less server, but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?
This seems a bit overkill and useless no? I mean when I’m on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.
Maybe I’m not the target audience and it’s focus is more entitled to people working in the video industry and needs more granular tweaking with specific media files? Scripts?
Or Am I missing something here?
Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
Is there an updated fork with security patches? Android disclosed so many media vulnerabilities in the last 5 years that I don’t trust unupdated media players anymore
I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.
That’s a fork and it looks nice, thanks for sharing
Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol
Same, I’d take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC’s themes are janky and weird-looking.
Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.
FFmpeg enters the chat
ffplay
Yeah, guess where vlc gets all that muscle…
I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?
libvlc uses libavcodec
VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.
If you look up the dependencies or legal notices for anything that does anything related to video, audio or maybe even images, it’s very likely that it uses ffmpeg in some way.
Interesting there isn’t more info on the team behind it.
FFmpeg is one of libvlc’s backends. A lot of stuff vlc can decode without calling ffmpeg.
Followed by MPV doing the same
Whenever someone ask me media player for Linux I suggest MPV but for Binbows I suggest VLC. I don’t know why?
I use mpv but the configuration is a big pain. Just try overriding a subtitle font in mpv, there are config files to change that don’t even exist by default and they live in different places depending on mpv version and it’s a huge mess.
I still do it because it’s lightweight and for some reason has better performance for me than VLC.
I do the same because VLC has an installer on Windows while MPV you have to manually extract from a compressed folder and then run the install script from command line
I want installers to die, portable is the future
My download came with a .bat executable
IIRC VLC on Windows uses it’s own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don’t need to mess around with Windows codecs.
I’m in the MPC-HC gang on Windows. Just so much more practical than other players. The main selling point was that full-screen the controls go away once you move the cursor off them, it was amazing. And no waiting for subs to be processed like VLC had to back then, never turned back so don’t know if that is still a thing.
BE > HC
the main selling point of mpchc is madvr. there’s basically no other competitors that utilize the GPU to make the media your watching better on the same level as madvr.
MPV.net for Windows is great.
Mpv is better
It runs better, but VLC is much more user friendly
shrugs idk. Vlc has more features. Not sure I’d call it easier.
Tell your parents to set mpv to loop a video and see how it goes
Such beings do not deserve to use computers. We’re talking about humans here, not our monkey ancestors.
I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.
You don’t even need to cough with the right setting on. That’s just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don’t submit freaked out bug reports.
The cool part is vlc can act like a video downloader, screen recorder, and media converter. It can also stream a video over the internet
VLC: it can do anything media related. I wish iTunes can do this without being so bloated.
VLC is nice, but same as SMplayer or Mplayer, it can`t download a video, but record it in streaming. I used VLC before, but VLC lacks in speed, it’s very slow compared to the mencioned.
The swissknife of digital video.
The every thing tool for media, now we just need a video editor XD
