There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 20 points 4 months ago

I am glad both MPV and VLC exist.

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I switched to MPV recently for the same reasons. If it had support for playing disc media it would be the absolute king of video players imo.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It has support for it tho.

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If so, then it definitely doesn't make it as obvious as VLC does. but good to know I suppose

edit: it only plays whatever the largest file it can find on the disc is, no menu / iso support. womp womp

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing streams better than RealPlayer

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Now that takes me back