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Maybe this is an opportunity to try another open source video player. Smplayer also works on windows mac and linux. - Preferences menu isn't broken into normal
by michaelmrose 6y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity to try another open source video player. Smplayer also works on windows mac and linux.
- Preferences menu isn't broken into normal and space shuttle control panel.
- Playlist works in fullscreen mode which isn't the case with VLC.
- Saves place in videos by default, mpv the simpler interface is actually smarter and remembers the position in a group of files if you pass it the same files. I think VLC can do this but its somewhere in the space shuttle preferences interface.
- Adding a folder doesn't add non video files to a playlist
- Audio syncing doesn't appear to be an issue over the network
- It understands any network stream that youtube-dl supports which seems to be much better than vlc
- akiselev 6y agoAs far as I know, SMplayer is based off of mplayer which uses ffmpeg under the hood, just like VLC. The most serious vulnerabilities would be present on both (although I think this exploit is VLC specific).
- michaelmrose 6y agoSmplayer can use mplayer or mpv which in turn can use ffmpeg or in theory its fork libav. There is a big intersection under the hood and indeed there is a possibility for a defect to effect both VLC although this issue is vlc and mac specific. I don't think Smplayer is more secure I just think its a better tool than VLC.