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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

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1113 points Bluestein | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 18:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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HPsquared ◴[17 Aug 24 21:04 UTC] No.41277951[source]▶
Can it do smooth scrubbing (i.e. scrolling the progress bar)?

So many media players only show the key frames when scrubbing, making it a much less pleasant experience. Some mobile phones (Apple, Samsung) built-in media players seem to do it nicely, but I've never found a desktop media player that does it (VLC can't).

Probably would require a lot of extra decoding behind the scenes to extract all the frames, but worth it on a modern machine.

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1. loeg ◴[17 Aug 24 22:23 UTC] No.41278493[source]▶
Outside of low bitrate streaming (youtube), most media has sufficient keyframes (I frames) that this distinction really doesn't matter. I don't know what mpv does, though.