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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: 0.206s | source
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etra0 ◴[17 Aug 24 20:20 UTC] No.41277640[source]▶
A fantastic mediaplayer, quite minimalistic and performant; it does what it's supposed to do!

Also has a fantastic commit where the author rants about locales: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02... worth a read for some chuckles.

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1. thayne ◴[18 Aug 24 00:25 UTC] No.41279174[source]▶
> Imagine they had done this for certain other things. Like errno, with all the brokenness of the locale API.

They did. See for example time functions like localtime (and localtime_r) and tzset. It is admittedly locale adjacent, since it depends on the locale. But the time zone is also global state, so it is impossible to get the time in a different timezone with standard apis in multi-threaded portable (for posix) c code.