MPV also has the benefit of having a _really good_ command line API, which is in fact the main way I use it: mpv --no-border --autofit-larger=320x200 --loop

MPV also has the benefit of having a _really good_ command line API, which is in fact the main way I use it: mpv --no-border --autofit-larger=320x200 --loop=inf --volume=60 foo.mp4 It also has built-in support for youtube-dl so that you can do things like `mpv [youtube url]`. (It's possible that VLC lets you do both of these, of course.)