There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)
I switched to MPV recently for the same reasons. If it had support for playing disc media it would be the absolute king of video players imo.
I actually found a file format that VLC won't play, .MJP, yanked off of our network's security camera system. It requires the security company's proprietary video player.
I just discovered something that VLC REALLY didn't like to play. A 4K50fps JPEG2000 YUV444 12bit lossless ~48 GB video that was only 1 minute long.
To be fair the bitrate of the video is insane at ~5700 Mbit/s. The bitrate is so insane that you should really consider using an NVME drive for playback.
MPC-HC could kinda play it but only with extreme stutter and lag. My CPU (Ryzen 9 5900x) was completely maxed out.
I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
Forget playback. How was that video file recorded? How do you even store data that fast, let alone encode it?
I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.
ok but why would anyone have a video like that
VLC the undisputed champ
vlc can even play incomplete video files - it'll just play the parts of it, that will play.
I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.
You don't even need to cough with the right setting on. That's just a safety feature for the uninitiated, so that they don't submit freaked out bug reports.
I use the SMplayer, which can play also almost everything
Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.
Same, I'd take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC's themes are janky and weird-looking.
Also MPC-BE because of nice support with dolby digital stuff lol
Is there an updated fork with security patches? Android disclosed so many media vulnerabilities in the last 5 years that I don't trust unupdated media players anymore
I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.
That's a fork and it looks nice, thanks for sharing
I've moved on. VLC used to be great, but my go to now is definitely MPC-BE.
This is news to me. What happened with VLC?
I don't know what they mean, but to me it didn't become less great, just MPV (based players) are often better. They are more customizable (even scriptable) and better with the resource usage.
Codecs, left the chat and everybody shut up.
VLC is not script-frendly. mpv is the goat. You can even watch videos from YouTube and maybe from somewhere else.
I was team VLC for certain things it could do, and then I found that MPV could do all those things and more. Crazy how versatile it is.
I find VLC really struggles with UHD high frame-rate video.
Is it vlc struggling or your entire PC?
I has one boss who wanted to stream 2 4K60 cctv feeds to his laptop while in the office. Needless to say his laptop struggles with a single 4K I didn't even bother setting up the second feed.
Run a transcoder in "the cloud" (another PC in the room) and then it's possible
Other video players work fine. My PC is fairly new.
what are you watching that's uhd and high ftamerate? is is something you made? I've never heard of anything releasing like that because yeah, most people can't play that lol.
I don’t even know what icon is on the right
MPC: All my homies hate wmp.
I think it's Windows Media player
Relabelled as Movies