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Originally posted by polarathene View PostWhat market share? Where is this information from? You have actual stats or pulling figures out of bias/experience? I don't have anything tangible beyond my own social network and I know without having to ask everyone, that the majority would recognize VLC over MPV.
One of the most common issues I see with people deeply invested in the open-source community is that they find certain groups or niches and become so involved in those groups that they tend to forget there is a "rest of the world". So of course if you're only a member of MPV usergroups and forums, eventually it will seem like "everyone" uses MPV.
I generally consider my self pretty tech-savvy (and mildly "with it" with open source stuff), and I've literally never even heard of MPV until today. Usually on the 'net, the two main players people talk about are VLC and MPC-HC. Every distro I've installed (including the SuSE Tumbleweed system I'm currently using) came with VLC.Last edited by AmericanLocomotive; 27 December 2020, 01:19 PM.
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Originally posted by Setif View Post
You mean market share in Linux world, because Celluloid is only available for Linux and VLC is very popular among Windows users.
They either use the bundled Windows Media Player, or for the case of anime lovers, MPC-HC with all the additional codecs bundled by the CCCP project.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View Post
Because GStreamer is a fucking mess. Every single decoder and encoder needs to be made available to the framework at compile time, and there is no way to 'add codecs' to it if it wasn't enabled during the build.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View Post
Nobody I know on Windows uses VLC since the early 2010s.
They either use the bundled Windows Media Player, or for the case of anime lovers, MPC-HC with all the additional codecs bundled by the CCCP project.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View Post
Nobody I know on Windows uses VLC since the early 2010s.
They either use the bundled Windows Media Player, or for the case of anime lovers, MPC-HC with all the additional codecs bundled by the CCCP project.
VLC still consistently is within top 5 in most top ranking web articles, if not number 1. I have no reason to believe the majority of people will go out of their way to look for a video player that hasn't been updated since 2017 (MPC-HC) mpcbe might be close as it does have a good amount of weekly downloads. MPV has zero legitimatly good guis for windows so I doubt thats a contender.
It's a shame that I still have to install VLC on new pcs, but no other video player has as good versatility or GUI...
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Originally posted by Setif View PostNo new (feature) release for VLC since almost three years (02/2018).
And about GStreamer, it's fedora problem, because of fu*** patents. All this problems existed from beginning in Fedora, long before GStreamer has been created. They affected FFMPEG, MPlayer(MPV is fork of it), XMMS and any other multimedia framework or video/music player available in official fedora repositories couldn't play MP3 and mainstream video codecs, because of patents.
lame amd other multimedia packages in official repos, were shims or empty packages, so it was very misleading for users, because they needed to add unoficiial repositories and noty only install, but replace system packages(that existed, but were not-functional intentionally). I stopped using Fedora, because of it and went rolling release distros.
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Originally posted by reba View PostHoly Moly. Can we pretty please finally ban some people from this forum for being destructive, disruptive, annoying, overall degrading the quality and not adding anything of worth to individuals or the group as a whole?
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