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Kodi?! That is this kitchen-sink style media-center application with a 5-feet interface that lags along on a Raspberry Pi. mpv/mplayer is a command line player with a crappy UI that will play whatever you throw at it. Totem is the Gnome-style barely functional video player that will play your files on a lucky day. VLC is the go-to hassle free media-player/streamer you can use across Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android etc.
... But of course YMMV
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Originally posted by Veto View PostKodi?! That is this kitchen-sink style media-center application with a 5-feet interface that lags along on a Raspberry Pi. mpv/mplayer is a command line player with a crappy UI that will play whatever you throw at it. Totem is the Gnome-style barely functional video player that will play your files on a lucky day. VLC is the go-to hassle free media-player/streamer you can use across Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android etc.
... But of course YMMV
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Originally posted by Adarion View PostDoes that thing finally work correctly? I use it for a long time now (since v0.x), but sadly it often messed up in a few corners. HW accel, some codecs not working, different shortcomings form platform to platform. mpv seems to be a better solution meantwhile for a bunch of cases, and for audio are plenty of solutions out there.
I'll still install it, it's by far not a bad SW, but sadly there are some caveats that hardly ever seem to get fixed.
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Originally posted by thelongdivider View PostMPV has a pretty good UI honestly. It requires like 5 lines of text to get hardware acceleration work properly...
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Originally posted by Veto View PostSo, you are saying that I'll need to spend 5 hours of reading man pages to make a 5 line command line or a magic config file tuned to the actual capabilities of my graphics drivers and specific brand of GPU to get it to work...?! Yeah, that is impressive and sounds just like MPV
On-topic: This version of VLC now finally has zero-copy VAAPI support. However, the devs have decided against a vaapi-specific video output and went for vaapi/egl interop instead. Which currently works only on Intel. The interface to provide egl interop on non-Intel won't be available until libva-2.1 and mesa-18.1 are released, and then VLC will need to implement said interface.
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Originally posted by Veto View PostSo, you are saying that I'll need to spend 5 hours of reading man pages to make a 5 line command line or a magic config file tuned to the actual capabilities of my graphics drivers and specific brand of GPU to get it to work...?! Yeah, that is impressive and sounds just like MPV
Really, the kind of people who are excited about MPV are the ones wanting the best video player. Those excited about VLC want the best video player application. It's hard to argue against the reality that MPV plays everything (except dvd/bluray menus, which don't strictly qualify as video) better than VLC, VLC is friendlier, for sure, but if you want to do anything halfway non-standard you'll start leaning on MPV.
I'd say the biggest hurdle for people using MPV is wanting to open the application and then the video rather than just opening a video itself, like you do with images. GUIs like SMPlayer help that, but the kind of people who'd care to use MPV over VLC are largely the kind of people who just want a video playing GUI, not a configuration GUI.
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