Edit: guys I didn’t made this template, can you please calm down?

  • darthsid@lemmy.world
    612·
    10 months ago

    I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

    • jroid8@lemmy.worldOP
      461·
      10 months ago

      I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

      Edit: to answer your question I can’t say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it’s minimal, but VLC is good too

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        7·
        10 months ago

        The problem I have with vlc is it’s too minimal. I use the playback settings a lot and there are looping and playlist to enqueue videos. It’s just easier to use and you don’t have to memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for a damn video player.

        • grubders@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          mpv has a video controller on screen and if that isn’t enough, you can use smplayer which is GUI frontend for mplayer & mpv

    • mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee
      21·
      10 months ago

      I’ve had VLC struggle with high-res videos from my phone, particularly if I’m seeking and replaying a bit.

      edit: It may have also been high frame rate.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
      13·
      10 months ago

      It seems hit and miss for VLC. I’ve used it for many years in Linux and can’t pinpoint the moment when it became bad for me, but it now has difficulty to read a significant portion of my video files.

      It lags when playing videos, or there is sound but no image, or it flickers. It just became unreliable for me. And if we google a bit, there seems to also be lots of people in that situation.

      I tried a few things, changing settings and what not, but it never worked correctly again. Even on a fresh install. So I gave up and just use mpv now.

      Edit: I just remembered. At one point it was not closing properly. Like, if you didn’t stop the video playing before closing VLC’s window, it crashed and stayed in the background. It opened new instances but every time it was closed before stopping a video, it would just crash and stay in the background. Eventually I’d have 4, 5 or 6 icons of VLC in my notification tray and would have to kill all of them. It was annoying.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
        2·
        10 months ago

        I sadly had a similar experience. Worked for me flawlessly for years on Win7, but the moment I switched to 10 and there-after it has been a buggy experience with crashes, especially with x265 content. I had to switch to using MPC-HC.

    • Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org
      111·
      10 months ago

      A big reason I use MPV is because of anime. I forget exactly what the reason was back in the day, but I can remember MPV being better at playing certain formats, and fan subs of anime are early adopters of new codecs. In addition, there is a very healthy ecosystem of plugins related to language learning, which again ties back to anime.

      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
        2·
        10 months ago

        Indeed, I love mpv as it can connect to Anki with a plugin and export subtitles with a screenshot and audio directly to it

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      All my life when I have to use vlc or try to there’s something slightly wrong or not working as expected. Mpv has always just worked perfect and right. Does one thing well: it plays anything you throw at it.

      Both are using basically the same libraries and tech behind the scenes, so one should use vlc if there’s need for the features it has, like the library and chromecast, etc.

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
      4·
      10 months ago

      mpv does everything it should in good and performant, while VLC comes with batteries (and codecs) included. This (batteries) can be a good thing because “it just works tm” or it can be a headache with weird errors and security. Personally, i switched to mpc-hc after VLC always had blocky artifacts, and later on to Linux and mpv. Only bad thing about mpv is that it has race conditions with config vs. cli, imo.

    • ordellrb@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Lots of keyshortcuts, easy to use in scripts/Cli, no wasted space for UI-Elements. Its great, but im sure VLC has also tons of Features

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    41·
    10 months ago

    Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

    mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      19·
      10 months ago

      If you’re in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don’t specify a video output). It’ll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.

      Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?

      • Tja
        9·
        10 months ago

        I’m sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying “hold my beer” one evening…

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.

      • anti-idpol action
        2·
        10 months ago

        you can also use libsixel for that. Contour is a pretty good term that supports that.

  • LunaCtld@lemmy.world
    341·
    10 months ago

    Pretty much depends. On my main PC I prefer mpv because the UI is simpler and I can scrub around really fast.

    Whenever I need more features I use either VLC or ffmpeg though.

    I also recently learned that VLC can still be faster than MPV. My old 10yr+ laptop struggles hard to play 1080p bluray files, while VLC has no problem with it at all.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    41·
    10 months ago

    Mpv is great I just wish it had a way to switch where the sound comes out like vlc

  • voxel@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    10 months ago

    except when watching YouTube for some reason.
    fast af for all sources, but YouTube buffers every .5 seconds, even with all the bells and whistles and hardware acceleration

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      4·
      10 months ago

      It buffers every .5 seconds because it only pulls in .5 seconds. It’s fucking annoying as hell. Load the entire damn video so that if my internet connection falls away for 40 seconds in the elevator and parking garage that I’m not stuck with a stopped video

      • Moldy@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        My internet drops consistently enough that if I want to watch a long video, I’ll preemptively download it with yt-dlp. Maybe it’s worth trying that.