Yes mpv has awesome features like: - Popular high quality scaling algorithms. - Accurate frame timing with reclock features. - Perfect color management. - ...
But there are still major problems: - Old hardware have weird stutterings on windows with the angle backend. - Some old hardware doesn't work with win and dxinterop backends. - Tearing is still a problem on latest linux distributions! - Some user scripts like stats.lua are messing video playback. - ...
There is a .cmd file that create a mpv.conf file for you!
Landon Sanchez
You literally need to compile a script to open a file.
Autists please go
Kayden Phillips
You don't need compilation, just put your .lua scripts in a scripts folder.
Benjamin Barnes
The mpv biggest problem is opengl, that's it! Proper d3d support is probably just a dream and vulkan support will not help people with old hardware.
Jose Foster
>- Old hardware have weird stutterings on windows with the angle backend. Depends on the hardware, obviously. I have a GTX 670 with Windows 10 and I've been using the ANGLE backend since it was added with no issue at all. It's even more CPU and GPU efficient than MPC-HC/madVR with comparable settings, and it's also more stable. madVR crashes sometimes when the video window is moved between monitors.
>- Tearing is still a problem on latest linux distributions! Never had this problem either. Debian sid, Intel HD Graphics 4400, xf86-modesetting and kwin with OpenGL 3.1 compositing. Jest werks.
I guess the more popular mpv gets, the more people will try to run it on ancient/bizarre/underpowered hardware.
Jaxon Rodriguez
>- Some user scripts like stats.lua are messing video playback. what? I've never had issues. can you provide proof?
Wyatt Sullivan
works on my 8 year old laptop with win 7
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Josiah Adams
Not OP, but I've noticed this. stats.lua renders a shitload of ASS each frame, so if your CPU can't keep up, it can bottleneck video rendering.
>Some user scripts like stats.lua are messing video playback. huh?
Oh well this happens when the dumbfucks think that having everything as a .lua file script would be a smart idea, even to have on-top while playing and not while paused you need a fucking script, thats still dumb to me.
Some things should just be added as default.
Camden Price
What's the current status of mochi-player and mpc-qt frontends? Do you already use one of them? Are they good?
Does youtube-dl even works anymore with youtube? I can't seem to make it work
Dylan Nguyen
yes retard. update it.
Nathan Torres
Update your youtube-dl...
Logan Howard
Can some please redpill me on mpv. I've always installed and used VLC only for years because it just werks.
Does mpv also just work out of the box? I don't have to change any settings or install codecs or any of the other shit? That's really what's keeping me from leaving VLC.
Camden Gray
Is trying it yourself THAT hard? And no, literally just open a file with mpv, then click twice on the window to fullscreen (or use --fs argument when launching from CLI) and enjoy your stupid B movie.
Anthony Peterson
works out of the box, works better (matter of preference) with a few tweaks
mpv out of the box is still much better than vlc and mpc-hc out of the box
Jaxson Brooks
You don't have to change a damn thing unless you want it to work better for your hardware. Same as MPC-HC and VLC really.
Liam Campbell
>I've always installed and used VLC only for years because it just werks. >because it just werks. LIE DETECTED
Evan Clark
It was a certificate problem, not an older build problem
Jose Thomas
The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have these problems.
Dylan Rivera
The macbook is the problem here...
Brayden Lee
the job of your media player is not to dance around shit hardware. >compiling a script
Blake Hughes
I don't know about you but mpv is what handles big encodes the best on my piece of shit 6 year old i3 laptop
Matthew Richardson
Not my problem if you are used to use shitty things.
Parker Nelson
>tfw no problems for OS X
Blake Fisher
Haha! It doesn't work at all on oldish OSX and have severe issues with latest one!
Jaxson White
The only time I tried VLC it couldn't render a fucking ASS subtitle.
Jonathan Rodriguez
VLC is the only real player.
Eli Kelly
If by shitty things you mean MPC and VLC, sure.
Tyler Young
Here's my alias to use my intel igpu for everything, also uses mp4 downloads because thats the only thing I can hardware decode on my cpu.
FPS is 48 because thats what my display runs at, mpv is the only program which doesn't cause screen tearing due to fps issues.
Please explain why my question makes no sense or fuck off with your elitist attitude
Camden Foster
Thank you, kind user.
Kayden King
Should I still use linux for htpc and windows for games?
Angel Jenkins
Well yeah why wouldn't you. You're using the linux machine as a backend to other devices though right.
Jonathan Kelly
There's already mpv in play store m8
Ryan Wood
I have no tearing on Linux. Using AMD open source drivers.
Ryder Taylor
Last MPV build in which I can use d3d is the one from november. The one from december works only in opengl (with terrible bad performance). So much for this player..
Logan Wilson
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Hunter Peterson
Give video file.
Asher Murphy
dumb anime poster >inb4 you post the same webm again
Jeremiah Sanchez
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Jace Gomez
>Hosting your projects on sourceforge
Lol and in the current year. I had a feeling mpv was a meme and now it's confirmed
Brayden Smith
That's not official.
Jonathan Perry
>he's never even tried using mpv
Chase Phillips
I actually have and I went back to VLC immediately. It's more mature and polished
Luis Fisher
>went back to vlc
Jaxon Campbell
...
Jordan White
>mac
Hunter Butler
Loving this meme. Spoiler alert for people who didn't see this when it was first posted two years ago: It's VDA's fault. macOS is shit.
mpv uses VideoToolbox instead of VDA these days anyway, so who knows if this "bug" still exists.
Adam Wilson
>- Old hardware have weird stutterings on windows with the angle backend. Hello foozor, my old friend
now kys
Colton Roberts
>- Old hardware have weird stutterings on windows with the angle backend. >- Some old hardware doesn't work with win and dxinterop backends. windows is irrelevant
- Tearing is still a problem on latest linux distributions! works4me
- Some user scripts like stats.lua are messing video playback. works4me. No fucking clue what you're trying to talk about
Ryan Jenkins
The only time it blows up for me is when the video title contains a lot of CJK characters that my OSD font doesn't contain. For some reason it fails at finding a fallback font and instead shows a crossed out square in place of the glyph.
When the title has many such characters, whatever it's trying to do takes ages and the video starts stuttering for as long as it's drawing the filename
It's also not a stats.lua issue, because the default “show filename” keybinding has the same issue. Also, it seems like it's korean characters in particular that it can't find on my system, since japanese and chinese both render fine.
Cooper Russell
Also, I installed a korean font and now it works
Nathaniel Carter
What's wrong with Lua? It's literally the easiest as fuck language to understand
Ryan Lopez
>HDMI desperately trying to stay relevant by adding features that DisplayPort has had for ages Why can't they just fucking give up already
DisplayPort has *always* been better than HDMI, since the moment the two came onto the market. I just wish GPU/monitor manufacturers would stop putting HDMI connectors on their devices
Jordan Butler
mpv works just fine for me on Windows, as for Linux I don't think it's mpvs problem, but that Xorg is just complete shit.
