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?
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.
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
The swissknife of digital video.
The every thing tool for media, now we just need a video editor XD
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.
And the dude who maintains VLC do not even make money from it, at all!
He is also an extremly annoyed french guy who has no fucks left to give. One of the maintainers is on an episode of the FOSSPOD and it was glorious
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
I think it’s Windows Media player
Relabelled as Movies
MPC: All my homies hate wmp.
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.
I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything
Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.
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.
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Vlc has hardware acceleration afaik. I think its more a case of the ffmpeg codec not supporting it yet because what the actual fuck haha
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Yeah, I think it’s a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.
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Where can I try this
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JPEG2000 = not lossless
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Right! Sorry, I assumed this was regular JPEG
Forget playback. How was that video file recorded? How do you even store data that fast, let alone encode it?
1 Terrabyte RAM with a 64GB RAM Drive perhaps?
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Ohhhhhh. It’s a video decoder torture test. “If your app can play this it can play anything” sort of deal. That makes sense.
Also makes sense that VLC puked.
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I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
ok but why would anyone have a video like that
Maybe some kind of super slow motion high resolution type thing?
Yeah I could definitely see this for slo-mo and data recording in an actual laboratory setting that requires it to be as accurate as humanly possible. Idk if this is a standard though I’m not a scientist.
but if you’re gonna watch it in slow motion anyways then why isn’t it saved as a slow video that is much longer?
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1 Terrabyte RAM with a 64GB RAM Drive perhaps?
Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol
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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
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)
Nothing streams better than RealPlayer
Now that takes me back
I am glad both MPV and VLC exist.
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
I actually found a file format that VLC won’t play, .MJP, yanked off of our network’s security camera system. It requires the security company’s proprietary video player.
what do you see from running binwalk on one of these files?
I don’t know what that is - I’ll have to look into it on Monday.
Very high level: it’s a program to quickly find files within files and it runs on pretty much any OS that exists
