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>How is this done? Without additional information the claim sounds like hdmi cable advertising to me. Differences in the video/audio decoding process. VLC opti
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
>How is this done? Without additional information the claim sounds like hdmi cable advertising to me.
Differences in the video/audio decoding process. VLC optimizes for playing media over a network connection (hence its name Video LAN Client), where temporary dropouts and data loss are common and might cause other players to choke. The cost of this is sometimes less accurate playback.
mpv is optimized primarily for accurate playback of media from local storage, and so while it might not fare as well for network/streaming media it's generally measurably better for local media.
- gruez 4y agoCan you give specifics? When it comes to decoding media formats, I'd expect of the "happy path" decoding behavior of media players to follow the specification exactly, which should result in the same result. Is VLC simply throwing out certain packets rather than properly decoding them?
- Jach 4y agoJust laughing to myself at this. A friend and I started copying long movies from the NAS to the media PC's local storage, since if I use my preferred smplayer (mpv) sometimes some hiccup will cause it to crash, but his preferred vlc will limp along and happily put out corrupted playback. Neither is a good experience. (Anyway the problem is likely the media PC itself since the issue doesn't happen on either of our personal PCs streaming from the NAS, using whichever player.)
- opan 4y agoI've had a good experience with playing files in mpv via sshfs, both local and remote. Helps a bit to enable a generous cache in mpv also. (I let it take a few GB so that the average episode of something can be entirely cached if I let it sit)