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I discovered it few days ago. Currently trying to set up Xmonad to work with it's fullscreen. What are the main pros comparing to, lets say, VLC?

pgz 13y ago
The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions. Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features. They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend VLC to my 'average Joe' friend as I know he would be put off by the CLI usage and config file editing.
- coolj 13y ago
  It's nice to see a renewed interest in developing mplayer. Do you know if there are plans to get it packaged by the major distros?
  - pgz 13y ago
    I know it was added to deb-multimedia some days ago and it is also in the gentoo-multimedia overlay and on AUR. I think many distributions would consider mpv a duplicate of mplayer, so for one to be packaged officially the other would have to be removed. Realistically that's not going to happen anytime soon.
przemoc 13y ago
While I have VLC installed, I think I haven't used it for ages, constantly relying on mplayer2 almost since its inception, until today that is. :) In the past VLC used to display wrong colors or downgrade video quality for better performance, not sure how it is now (possibly a bit better). Relevant: http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Players http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Playe...
VMG 13y ago
low startup time, powerful command line options
- przemoc 13y ago
  > powerful command line options Don't be fooled by simplified mpv --help output. :) Usage: mpv [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) --start=<time> seek to given (percent, seconds, or hh:mm:ss) position --no-audio do not play sound --no-video do not play video --fs fullscreen playback --sub=<file> specify subtitle file to use --playlist=<file> specify playlist file There is much more in man page. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/options.rst https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/op...
zxcvgm 13y ago
My experience with mplayer (and hopefully mpv) has been that it's very resilient - it's able to play almost any video file, even those that crash or lock up VLC. And it's blazingly fast too.

pgz 13y ago

The main selling point of mpv, IMHO, is video quality and color correctness. You can get pretty nice results (on par with MadVR on Windows) with --vo=opengl-hq and it's many suboptions. Minimalism is also something people are interested in. mpv has 1/5 the code of mplayer and 1/6 of VLC but still has relevant features. They appeal to different kind of users. For example, even if I am in the mpv team, I will recommend VLC to my 'average Joe' friend as I know he would be put off by the CLI usage and config file editing.

coolj 13y ago
It's nice to see a renewed interest in developing mplayer. Do you know if there are plans to get it packaged by the major distros?
- pgz 13y ago
  I know it was added to deb-multimedia some days ago and it is also in the gentoo-multimedia overlay and on AUR. I think many distributions would consider mpv a duplicate of mplayer, so for one to be packaged officially the other would have to be removed. Realistically that's not going to happen anytime soon.

przemoc 13y ago

While I have VLC installed, I think I haven't used it for ages, constantly relying on mplayer2 almost since its inception, until today that is. :) In the past VLC used to display wrong colors or downgrade video quality for better performance, not sure how it is now (possibly a bit better). Relevant: http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Players http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Playe...

VMG 13y ago

low startup time, powerful command line options

przemoc 13y ago
> powerful command line options Don't be fooled by simplified mpv --help output. :) Usage: mpv [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) --start=<time> seek to given (percent, seconds, or hh:mm:ss) position --no-audio do not play sound --no-video do not play video --fs fullscreen playback --sub=<file> specify subtitle file to use --playlist=<file> specify playlist file There is much more in man page. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/options.rst https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/op...

zxcvgm 13y ago

My experience with mplayer (and hopefully mpv) has been that it's very resilient - it's able to play almost any video file, even those that crash or lock up VLC. And it's blazingly fast too.