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This image is getting more and more compressed. I personally use MPV on my Linux machine as for some unknown reason VLC adds a red filter to all videos on my machine.
One of the programs i always immediately install when setting up a new pc. The creators of VLC, received multiple offers for a lot of money to add adds to VLC, but they always refused them.
The definition of FLOSS Chad.
Same. First thing I run is ‘apt install vlc firefox-esr tmux mosh’ on a new desktop. Various others.
While I do appreciate its existence, I’ve never been a fan of VLC. Back on Windows I used to use MPC-HC, mpv is always better on linux and even when I tried to use VLC on my google tv device yesterday to stream some episodes over NFS it kept stuttering so I had to install Kodi which worked perfectly.
There always seem to be better apps to do what I need.
mpv is the king. Nice minimal interface, comprehensive format support and great performance.
I tried to use VLC to watch videos from my network share and it it just kept stuttering and freezing, meanwhile mpv has way better capability there and actually buffers and preloads the video. It even shows you in the seek bar how much of the file is preloaded.
I use mpv mostly, but to be fair at least VLC doesn’t require you to learn keyboard shortcuts for basic functions such as selecting subtitles
VLC’s core components do get integrated into other programs, so you could be indirectly using it.
Do you know of an MPC equivalent on nix? Basically I’d like it to remember my unsaved play list and remember where I left off in a video either by stopping the video, logout, or system crash and has a minimal interface like Haruna (sp? default player in Kubuntu). Been using MPC since the k-lite kodec pack back in early 2k.
Thanks for any advice
*prolly not the best place to ask but you guys seem to know and have the patience to test a lot of software
Haruna itself is a frontend for mpv and mpv can probably do what you need and more. Check out the archwiki and if something you want isn’t on there someone else on the internet probably has made a script for it or something.
Thank you
