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Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

mpv has superior playback quality to VLC in my opinion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve also find mpv about a thousand times faster to start up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And to seek to position!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't they both based on ffmpeg? Surely any quality difference is just a configuration issue?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes. If I remember correctly VLC was originally configured (maybe still is) to network streams and prioritize no lag. That's why you get weird artifacts in VLC sometimes that's not present in mpv.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use celluloid, because I absolutely hate the mpv interface. Seriously, how unexplorable and unintuitive can you make it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's driven by keyboard shortcuts

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that is deeply connected with being unexplorable.

Celluloid is also keyboard driven. But in celluloid there are clearly marked buttons for the most used functions and I can open the menu to check the keyboard shortcuts. Not so in mpv.

For what it's worth, I think celluloid is a thin wrapper around mpv with the only purpose to provide a better UI. And I'm very thankful for and happy with that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like the idea of Celluloid. However, last time I tried, it somehow felt less performant than pure mpv. Colors a bit washed out and not perfectly smooth playback. Should try it again soon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it does have some hickups when playing a movie from my HDD. I think it doesn't prefetch enough data, because I didn't have any issues after copying the movie to a tmpfs.

I still use it over mpv, because I truly cannot stand mpvs UX. But a valid point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!

Here is the manual.

There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

MPV cannot fulfill the playlist needs. So I regularly use MPV to play standalone videos, since it is superior, but I use VLC to play video playlists and to be able to rotate/flip and play a weird video.

SMPlayer frontend for MPV is just not the same as VLC.

VLC is the Swiss Army knife of media playback, while MPV is the superior standalone video player. Use both.