• sag@lemm.eeOP
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    7 months ago

    Whenever someone ask me media player for Linux I suggest MPV but for Binbows I suggest VLC. I don’t know why?

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      7 months ago

      IIRC VLC on Windows uses it’s own included ffmpeg libraries for decoding so you don’t need to mess around with Windows codecs.

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      7 months ago

      I use mpv but the configuration is a big pain. Just try overriding a subtitle font in mpv, there are config files to change that don’t even exist by default and they live in different places depending on mpv version and it’s a huge mess.

      I still do it because it’s lightweight and for some reason has better performance for me than VLC.

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      7 months ago

      I do the same because VLC has an installer on Windows while MPV you have to manually extract from a compressed folder and then run the install script from command line