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mpv is fantastic. I recently decided to abandon MPlayerX when I found out about their incredibly dishonest malware bundling tactics[1] but was surprised at how
by neotek 10y ago
mpv is fantastic. I recently decided to abandon MPlayerX when I found out about their incredibly dishonest malware bundling tactics[1] but was surprised at how few good media players there are for macOS, until I read about mpv.
mpv took a little bit of getting used to since it doesn't offer a lot of useful stuff out of the box (automatically queuing files, subtitle downloads, etc) but since you can write quite powerful scripts for it that didn't remain a problem for long.
[1] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/puppum/2016/09/pup-friday-mplayerx/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/puppum/2016/09/pup-friday-mpla...
- TheAceOfHearts 10y agoIf you're on macOS and looking for something with a nice GUI, check out IINA [0]. I saw it on HN [1] last week, and it looks very promising, although it's still an alpha. It's based on mpv. [0] https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/ https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337444
- LeoNatan25 10y agoIina is very promising. Keep in mind that it is still very early in development, but I really like the mindset of the developer and contributors - creating a macOS experience, not cross-platform that looks bad everywhere. MPlayerX was once upon a time also that, but its maintenance went vaporware a few years back, and the bundled crap finally killed it. So for a while now, I've been looking for a good player. Seems Iina is that player.
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