There are other media players?
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Nah. mpv.
Until you want to add external subtitles
When the file is called video.mkv name them video.srt. MPV will pick it up automatically.
I know, but what about when I have several subtitle files? Different languages, or maybe several subtitle files I downloaded and want to check which one matches my video? mpv has zero flexibility.
With VLC I can just "Subtitle / Add subtitle track" or add the language code after the filename (video.en.srt, video.fr.srt, video.spa.srt), with mpv: just one file at a time: rename, launch, retry.
I don't know what it is about mpv that makes it my favourite. Gstreamer is performative enough. FFplay is also pretty clean. Cvlc is fine.
I think I just like that it has sensible controls, and ultimately gets out of the way
I really like the configuration aspect of it. You can customize how it works internally and how it even looks. For example, I use a big 1m diagonal TV as my main screen and I sit about 45cm in front of it. So with bidirectional integer scaling, Full HD looks kind of blurry and bad, but with lanczos scaling it looks great! And that's why I like MPV.
Somehow I'm unable to let VLC play any kind of video on my Arch (actually cachyos) laptop. Whatever the format it says codec is missing even if I installed everything (mpv, totem and others can play them).
(I tried to install vlc-git from aur but then gave up when after 30 minutes was still compiling, I don't have enough patience to wait all that time every time I run yay)
I'm forced to run the flatpak version of VLC for some reason, the only way to make it work
You should read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player
Likely you just want vlc-plugins-all
Developed by the French and funded by the EU. I'll download it.
If you're telling us you found Lemmy before vlc that's honestly remarkable.
Despite that I still like it
VLC sucks ass when you want to do any type of live transcoding or remuxing without setting up a video stream. Especially with multichannel audio:
This has been an issue ever since feature added, the maximum bitrate you can set is 512 kb/s on every codec, despite codecs that support more.
The bug thread for this was basically "stop complaining about our shit UI and use the CLI"
Much prefer Kodi for this purpose, and an ffmpeg based player for lightweight stuff.
My experience with VLC in Linux is subpar. In Windows it was always a good tool to have. Granted for me it was just, does this shit have working codecs, phew, it plays
Shame it's shit on Android tv
Is it? What's wrong with it? What do you use instead?
It seems to fail with some files. I think 4k and/or .mkv ones. I've had to use Kodi during those times instead. I've not going a great simple media player to use on Android tv yet. They all have their caveats. Unless there's a better one I've not found yet.
The creator of VLC just won the European SFS Award "in recognition of his outstanding and lasting contributions to the Free Software movement and his long-term dedication to the VLC project."
Til vlc is older than me
TIL I’m older than you.
TIL I still need to schedule that colonoscopy
Get checked everyone! If you listened to the album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” in HS, it’s time for a mammogram and/or colonoscopy.
I get the sense that VLC doesn't really care if something is a valid video file, it's just gonna start playing and see what happens.
You can shove French fries into a CD drive and vlc will still make it a video
Extract the eyes of murder victims and VLC will show their final moments.
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I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled
VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge
I had it once play a video recorded on an old Motorola razr circa 2004. It was this super obscure file format, that basically only this one phone used, and was never used on any other phone.
VLC didn't care, played it right out of the box without any problems.
It supports an obscure single use, 2004 video format. If aliens come to earth, VLC will be able to play their files too.
VLC: "I am 4 Parallel Universes ahead of you"
And it still supports devices with Android version 4.2 (released on November 13, 2012) and newer. That's a 13 year old release.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.videolan.vlc/
Perfect use of old devices as a media player. It struggles with modern file formats but having modern UI and support this long is epic.
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sad ffmpeg noises
Dont you mean sad libavcodec noises?
VLC, IPlayer, and FFMpeg are interfaces for libavcodec 😀
it's repo is part of the ffmpeg one
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/tree/HEAD:/libavcodec
Ah yes, I guess if that was interpreted as sad ffmpeg team it would hold true 😀
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VLC... my choice since 2007.
Long ago; a non-tech friend saying to another non-tech friend. "you should try it on VLC; it'll play a slice of cucumber" when referring to some obscure video file they had.
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