• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      16 天前

      I don’t know what it is about mpv that makes it my favourite. Gstreamer is performative enough. FFplay is also pretty clean. Cvlc is fine.

      I think I just like that it has sensible controls, and ultimately gets out of the way

      • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 天前

        I really like the configuration aspect of it. You can customize how it works internally and how it even looks. For example, I use a big 1m diagonal TV as my main screen and I sit about 45cm in front of it. So with bidirectional integer scaling, Full HD looks kind of blurry and bad, but with lanczos scaling it looks great! And that’s why I like MPV.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        15 天前

        If I want a program that calls a video player seemlessly for the end user mpv is great.

        If I want an actual app that is human useable and doesn’t require arcane bullshit. I’ll use VLC.

        Different use cases really.

        • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          14 天前

          I’m continually impressed that mpv can run from a tty. It does not need X11 or Wayland, it can render directly to the framebuffer itself!

        • nshibj@lemmy.world
          2·
          16 天前

          I know, but what about when I have several subtitle files? Different languages, or maybe several subtitle files I downloaded and want to check which one matches my video? mpv has zero flexibility.

          With VLC I can just “Subtitle / Add subtitle track” or add the language code after the filename (video.en.srt, video.fr.srt, video.spa.srt), with mpv: just one file at a time: rename, launch, retry.