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?
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?