4 ms·
VLC is fantastic but I haven't used it in a long time. I switched to MPC-HC. I found that the built-in codecs VLC used were not the best.
by everyone 4y ago
VLC is fantastic but I haven't used it in a long time. I switched to MPC-HC. I found that the built-in codecs VLC used were not the best.
- orangepurple 4y agoMPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else.
- everyone 4y agoOh I never even noticed that. It's been working perfectly since then though. It seems MPC-BE is a similar project that is still under development.
- weberer 4y agoThat's been depreciated for several years. Most people these days go with either VLC or MPV. https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/
- everyone 4y agoTx for suggestion but neither of those are reasonable alternatives imo. VLC doesnt use your system codecs, it uses its own built in ones, and MPV "provides no real GUI" according to their website. It seems that MPC-BE is a similar thing to MPC-HC which is still in development.
- MayeulC 4y agoTry mpv before dismissing it like that! They don't provide traditionnal ui controls, but there are still a few buttons, play, pause, next/previous, a seek bar, subtitles/audio track, etc. Everything is pretty barebones as it's running on the subtitle engine AFAIK. You generally drag and drop media to play it, or open files directly (or with the command line). These days I mostly use mpv, it ha great HW accel, wayland support, etc. I still use vlc for more involved cases like playing media off the network (its original use- case!), disk or webcams, etc. Though mpv can handle most of these too!
- aesh2Xa1 4y agoMPV has front-end projects that provide a more complete GUI if that’s something you’re after: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/Applications-using-mp...