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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: 0.234s | source
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Thaxll ◴[18 Aug 24 12:06 UTC] No.41281839[source]▶
MPV is great for powerusers, for the vast majority of people just use VLC.

I used both over the year and there are still things that are really annoying in mpv:

- you can't render on a Chromecast

- opening a file that does not work does nothing, you don't know what's happening, is the file corrupted, is the codec not supported ??

- the no ui idea is nice for opening a single file, but then you go to the rabbithole of millions of settings / config to do anything more complicated, playlists? ( why can't I drag and drop on the window )

- it's hard to compile, so it's up to you to find up to date version on your distro

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1. valenceelectron ◴[20 Aug 24 10:37 UTC] No.41298696[source]▶
>- opening a file that does not work does nothing, you don't know what's happening, is the file corrupted, is the codec not supported ??

You could open the console to see errors. https://mpv.io/manual/master/#console

>- the no ui idea is nice for opening a single file, but then you go to the rabbithole of millions of settings / config to do anything more complicated, playlists? ( why can't I drag and drop on the window )

I cannot relate to that. "ad-hoc" playlists or even adding more files while some are already playing works fine for me on macOS. There's a chance the built-in UI differs between operating systems, not sure.

>- it's hard to compile, so it's up to you to find up to date version on your distro

I consider that hardly the fault of the mpv project. Other than that, there are usually third-party providers for mpv binaries.