mplayer vs mpv
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What does /g/ think about these two media players?
I've been using mplayer for years now. Should I use mpv instead?
mplayer is old as fuk bro
>>53500682
I use nothing but MPC-HC, it is lightweight as fuck and has so many features that I literally every time.
>>53500682
mplayer is outdated beyond repair, MPV is a step up.
>>53500682
>>53500835
I use MPV just because it's the same across my windows and Linux machines.
Only things I want more for MPV are a potplayer style playlist window IE: some way to track what episode in a series I fell asleep to.
That and I want Kodi to go libmpv so I can use the same configuration files for every media player. Or I can wait for Plex Media Player to be finished but when I last tried it it seemed to get more stutters than regular MPV and it wasn't pulling all my configuration options.
>>53500682
Yeah, mpv is probably what you want. MPlayer was a good choice before mpv came along, but it's broken and weird in a lot of ways that mpv isn't. For example, I think MPlayer still partially relies on an in-tree copy of FFmpeg and libass.
For a fairly detailed list of what's different between the two, see:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/mplayer-changes.rst
If you have old hardware or you need a feature that mpv removed, you should use MPlayer.
>>53500905
>some way to track what episode in a series I fell asleep to
How does that work?
>>53500682
Use Bomi, mpv by itself is a joke, it doesn't even have a gui.
>>53500682
is that some good ol' the good, the bad and the ugly?
>>53500905
>some way to track what episode in a series I fell asleep to
couldn't someone make a script for that from the watch later files?
SMplayer + mpv seems to work surprisingly well now
>>53502646
Bomi development will continue, that's awesome!
https://mobile.twitter.com/bomi_player/status/697646986560872450
>>53502646
>gui
why?
>>53503300
not everyone is a c00l h4x0r like you anon, some of us need basic features.
>>53503420
>basic features.
tell me two basic features not adressed by the osc
why is it so hard to set up a fucking config file in mpv?
why aren't the fucking docs relevant, why do they recommend switches instead of a fucking config file? what cunt uses switches?
>>53504226
>make a text file called mpv.conf in ~/.config/mpv
>put shit in there
I don't understand your problem
>>53504269
That's exactly what I'm doingvo=opengl-hq
hwdec=vdpau
osc
osd-layout=bottombar
I think the actual options might be fucked but there's such flaky documentation out there that I wouldn't be surprised
>>53504339
>>53504269
It was actually
script-opts=osc-layout=bottombar
Is there a way to determine if video is actually being GPU-accelerated?
>>53504382
https://github.com/Argon-/mpv-stats/
>>53504806mpv H264_test8_voiceclip_mp4_480x320.mp4 --log-file=l.log
Playing: H264_test8_voiceclip_mp4_480x320.mp4
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac)
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float
Using software decoding.
VO: [opengl] 480x320 yuv420p
AV: 00:00:01 / 00:00:10 (13%) A-V: 0.000
Crap, all this time and I never realized. I have the official Nvidia drivers on an oldish card, so is there any reason why it wouldn't just work?
I do have Compton installed (XFCE tears like shit) so could that be why? I didn't think the two things could conflict but that could be why I guess.
>>53504899
Wait, am I getting confused, or where it says
"Using software decoding"
Is it referring to the audio?
>>53504986
>Is it referring to the audio?
no
>>53504986
So I was right the first time and it wasn't using the hardware
But I tried it on a 720p video and it seems to be using the GPU now
I guess there's a reason why it works on some videos but not others, but I never really paid attention to this in the pastPlaying: r2w_h720p.mov
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac)
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float
Using hardware decoding (vdpau).
VO: [opengl] 1280x544 vdpau
(Paused) AV: 00:00:46 / 00:01:30 (51%) A-V: 0.000
Exiting... (Quit)
i dont know what mplayer is so no opinion
but mpv works for all my uses.
Have you guys tried Fluid Motion from AMD's cataclyst?
>http://bluesky23.yukishigure.com/en/BlueskyFRC.html
I'm using this to enable the Fluid Motion for 60fps. Seems to look just fine as a fluid 60fps video with MPC-HC.
>>53503453
tick boxes for on/off items
drop down menus for multiple options.
>>53503453
how up your own ass are you that you even need to ask that
>>53505572
Which items or options?
>>53505081
It depends on resolution of the file.
>>53506263
all or at least the most common settings.
usual gui stuff for playlists, looping, repeating, files etc.
>>53506376
https://github.com/nezumisama/mpvmenu
Work in progress.
Make an issue if you want something concrete added.
>>53506376
Don't need a gui to do any of that. It's just too keys to remember, L for loop and p for playlist.
L is bound to loop by default.
And I select multiple files in my file manager and hit enter to make a playlist (not sure if this works on windows, I don't use it), and you can shift+drag and drop files or youtube links to add them to the playlist.
To view the playlist I added this to input.conf and press p to activatep show_text "${osd-ass-cc/0}{\\fs8}${osd-ass-cc/1}${playlist}"
I think p should display the playlist by default and I don't think there is currently a default keybind to do this? It seems pointless having space and p be pause to me.
>>53506571
>too
