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Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn't know what software the second icon was supposed to be.

Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.

VLC is so much better than the solution I was using before it. Windows Media Player Classic with the Mega Codec Pack downloaded from a super shady warez website.

VLC has always just worked. Never had to fuck with settings or download extra shit. Dealing with codecs and different formats was such a pain in the ass until VLC came along.

For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can't play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.

Not Media Player, but Windows Movie and TV Player plays video files clearer with better hue and color than any other player paid or open source, and I've tried them all. You can't adjust anything in it, if the subtitles are off you're fucked and gotta go back to VLC, but the look of the default video processing in the WMT app is hands down the best I've ever seen. I'd guess out of all the different types of codecs there are about .5% that aren't compatible with it, but it's my app of choice.

Had to install VLC last week because the Windows player didn't have the codec to play a video someone sent me from their smartphone. Seems like a pretty common use case to not have figured out..

That's the logo for a multi-billion dollar corporation's built-in media player for their flagship OS? It looks like one of my side projects.

If I'm not mistaken the people behind Videolan also did x264 which is a pretty major library used to encode h.264.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

It's a lesser known project from videolan but with a rather broad use online.

mpv: those files have some exotic image format, they're not videos. Here is your dia show with your custom upscaling shaders.

I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files

I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

VLC is okay..but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player 😞

mpv

remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.

You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.