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PeterPoopshit ,

I like vlc because I'm sexually aroused by traffic cones.

velvetThunder ,

How do you get them out?
Asking for a friend

poke ,

Traffic cones have a flared base for this purpose.

vinyl ,

There was a gif of a dude having a traffic cone shoved in his ass with the caption "installing VLC"

darthsid ,

I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

jroid8 OP , (edited )

I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

Edit: to answer your question I can't say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it's minimal, but VLC is good too

pineapplelover , (edited )

The problem I have with vlc is it's too minimal. I use the playback settings a lot and there are looping and playlist to enqueue videos. It's just easier to use and you don't have to memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for a damn video player.

grubders ,
@grubders@sopuli.xyz avatar

mpv has a video controller on screen and if that isn't enough, you can use smplayer which is GUI frontend for mplayer & mpv

mathematicalMagpie , (edited )

I've had VLC struggle with high-res videos from my phone, particularly if I'm seeking and replaying a bit.

edit: It may have also been high frame rate.

devfuuu ,

All my life when I have to use vlc or try to there's something slightly wrong or not working as expected. Mpv has always just worked perfect and right. Does one thing well: it plays anything you throw at it.

Both are using basically the same libraries and tech behind the scenes, so one should use vlc if there's need for the features it has, like the library and chromecast, etc.

pedz , (edited )

It seems hit and miss for VLC. I've used it for many years in Linux and can't pinpoint the moment when it became bad for me, but it now has difficulty to read a significant portion of my video files.

It lags when playing videos, or there is sound but no image, or it flickers. It just became unreliable for me. And if we google a bit, there seems to also be lots of people in that situation.

I tried a few things, changing settings and what not, but it never worked correctly again. Even on a fresh install. So I gave up and just use mpv now.

Edit: I just remembered. At one point it was not closing properly. Like, if you didn't stop the video playing before closing VLC's window, it crashed and stayed in the background. It opened new instances but every time it was closed before stopping a video, it would just crash and stay in the background. Eventually I'd have 4, 5 or 6 icons of VLC in my notification tray and would have to kill all of them. It was annoying.

fogstormberry ,

just remembered this was happening to me on windows before ditching for linux

IronKrill ,

I sadly had a similar experience. Worked for me flawlessly for years on Win7, but the moment I switched to 10 and there-after it has been a buggy experience with crashes, especially with x265 content. I had to switch to using MPC-HC.

MonkderZweite ,

mpv does everything it should in good and performant, while VLC comes with batteries (and codecs) included. This (batteries) can be a good thing because "it just works tm" or it can be a headache with weird errors and security. Personally, i switched to mpc-hc after VLC always had blocky artifacts, and later on to Linux and mpv. Only bad thing about mpv is that it has race conditions with config vs. cli, imo.

Rbon ,
@Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

A big reason I use MPV is because of anime. I forget exactly what the reason was back in the day, but I can remember MPV being better at playing certain formats, and fan subs of anime are early adopters of new codecs. In addition, there is a very healthy ecosystem of plugins related to language learning, which again ties back to anime.

EddoWagt ,

Indeed, I love mpv as it can connect to Anki with a plugin and export subtitles with a screenshot and audio directly to it

ordellrb ,

Lots of keyshortcuts, easy to use in scripts/Cli, no wasted space for UI-Elements. Its great, but im sure VLC has also tons of Features

ichmagrum ,

MPV looks better.

nx2 ,

I've had twitch lag in VLC, but work flawlessly in MPV

redcalcium ,

Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

vaselined ,

What does tct do?

ThePhantomGM ,

It uses the terminal as a display output instead of a separate window

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This is stupid and I love it

AVincentInSpace ,

If you're in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don't specify a video output). It'll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.

Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?

Tja ,

I'm sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying "hold my beer" one evening...

rtxn ,

84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.

pkill ,

you can also use libsixel for that. Contour is a pretty good term that supports that.

Kethal ,

I wondered what this could possibly look like and found some examples here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/view-media-no-graphical-env.

I was expecting ASCII art. It's low resolution video though. Seems like a small use case, but pretty nifty.

NaoPb ,

I prefer VLC but to each their own. I'm glad we have a choice.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

VLC is much more versatile, but when it comes to speed/efficiency, MPV run laps around VLC.

NaoPb ,

Cool. I just don't like change.

Jarix ,

Winamp. Still whips the llamas ass

kurumin ,
@kurumin@linux.community avatar

On linux?

pedz ,

For the nostalgic, there is Qmmp that looks and behave like XMMS/Winamp and is still maintained.

vox ,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

except when watching YouTube for some reason.
fast af for all sources, but YouTube buffers every .5 seconds, even with all the bells and whistles and hardware acceleration

phoenixz ,

It buffers every .5 seconds because it only pulls in .5 seconds. It's fucking annoying as hell. Load the entire damn video so that if my internet connection falls away for 40 seconds in the elevator and parking garage that I'm not stuck with a stopped video

Moldy ,

My internet drops consistently enough that if I want to watch a long video, I'll preemptively download it with yt-dlp. Maybe it's worth trying that.

LarmyOfLone ,

I'm so glad about FreeTube

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

technically, airplanes aren't on earth whilst being fast,

bali10050 ,
@bali10050@lemmy.world avatar

Technically, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter aren't planets, just clouds really far away

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Which one has cloud city again?

bitwaba ,

Bespin..... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You got me!

TxzK ,
@TxzK@lemmy.zip avatar

Actually, the gas giants do have a solid core

noobdoomguy8658 ,

Has it already been confirmed or it's still a hypothesis?

Please share any material proving it if you have any, I love space.

TxzK ,
@TxzK@lemmy.zip avatar

From this article

"All known gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn, have solid cores. These cores are either rocky or metallic, and aren’t completely solid throughout, with some of the core being comprised of molten metal and rock."

noobdoomguy8658 ,

That's amazing, thank you!

Damage ,

Technically they are still faster than cheetah on land when taking off

DacoTaco ,
@DacoTaco@lemmy.world avatar

What defines being on earth? Below the atmosphere? stratosphere? Being in contact with the ground? Being more than 10m up?

p1mrx , (edited )

I would say, anything whose spacetime geodesic (orbital/freefall path) intersects the spheroid defined by the surface of the Earth. Though by this definition, a comet on a 100-year collision course is already "on Earth", so I'm not sure if that's reasonable.

DacoTaco ,
@DacoTaco@lemmy.world avatar

Hahaha, well played good sir/madam

mexicancartel ,

Technically, it is if you count atmosphere as part of earth

dipshit ,

you matter. light energy.

Cosmicomical ,

In that case, technically the light isn't either

Octopus1348 , (edited )
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

Heaviest things on earth:

4: Elephant

3: Ur mom

2: node_modules

1: wav

LemmyTryThisOut ,

node_modules

Octopus1348 ,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

Added to the list.

vegantomato ,
@vegantomato@lemmy.world avatar

Cheetahs are 1/2 the speed of airplanes and 1/3 the speed of light. Ok, got it.

Ziglin ,

It's possible that it's a logarithmic scale.

vegantomato , (edited )
@vegantomato@lemmy.world avatar

y=log_a(x) <=> x=pow(a,y) where "a" is unknown. Let's say the values of the progress bars in the image are in ]0,b]. That puts the cheetah on about b/5. It is know that cheetahs run at a maximum speed of 75mph. This gives us b/5=log_a(75) <=> pow(a,b/5)=75 <=> a=pow(75,5/b) Therefore, we have the relationship x=pow(75,pow(5/b,y)).

For the speed of light, y=((b×3)/5). It is known that the speed of light is 671000000mph. That gives us x=pow(75,pow(5/b,(b×3)/5))=671000000mph <=> pow(75,pow(5/b,b))=514285405839088.
For the airplane, y=((b×2)/5). The fastest airplane flied at about 2200mph. That gives us x=pow(75,pow(5/b,(b×2)/5))=2200mph <=> pow(75,pow(5/b,b))=227016123.

514285405839088 =/= 227016123 (contradiction).

Cannot be a logarithmic scale.

xor ,

it's a double log... y = log(log(x))...
or maybe *graph not to scale

ilinamorato ,

That would make way more sense when you're talking about relative speeds of the speed of light and pretty much anything else.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

They used the Windows 95 Microsoft progress bar code

AVincentInSpace ,

MPV > VLC

Change my mind

Chriswild ,

No. You're allowed to have a different opinion than me.

Grass ,

There's no point in trying vlc is worse for anyone willing to configure something, assuming the default config wasn't good enough for the person.

quantenzitrone ,

i like to watch my videos on normal speed, so no thanks /s

Kowowow , (edited )

Mpv is great I just wish it had a way to switch where the sound comes out like vlc

far_university1990 ,

probably exist a mpv script that already does this: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts

Kowowow ,

Thanks man I found one that looks like it'll work in the awesome mpv collection

cmgvd3lw ,

Loading mpv.conf file will make it slow.

AVincentInSpace ,

What?

LunaCtld ,
@LunaCtld@lemmy.world avatar

Pretty much depends. On my main PC I prefer mpv because the UI is simpler and I can scrub around really fast.

Whenever I need more features I use either VLC or ffmpeg though.

I also recently learned that VLC can still be faster than MPV. My old 10yr+ laptop struggles hard to play 1080p bluray files, while VLC has no problem with it at all.

Bondrewd ,

Matter of configuration.

Pfnic ,

That may very well be the case but for the majority of users the out-of-the-box experience is the one they're getting

AVincentInSpace ,

Try again with mpv --hwdec=auto

p1mrx ,

Drop the SPEED OF, just LIGHT. It's cleaner.

Siegfried ,

Light in vacuum, so we dont get cherenkov effect

leanleft ,
@leanleft@lemmy.ml avatar

i do agree.. when it doesnt freeze and crash the system.

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