Media Players

MPV
MPC-HC
VLC

Which is the best and why?

mpv because i say so

mpv, it is in active development and it isn't vlc.

mpv is the best desu

MPV -> Future proof, ideal for configfags
MPC-HC -> Absolute perfection by today's standards, probably will remain usable forever with codec packs.
VLC -> Normalfag redditor tier, avoid like the plague

I just use MPlayer

>Future proof

What?

Scripts

I use MPV, but MPC-HC is almost just as great.

>MPC-HC -> Absolute perfection by today's standards, probably will remain usable forever with codec packs.

it's a shame there isn't an android version. if you check google play there's half a dozen mpc media remote control apps for smart tvs, and a whole bunch of rebadged VLC apps pretending to be MPC.

>MPC-HC
Didn't that get deprecated a few months ago? Plus it's Windows only

. No

Why does "mpv file1.wav -o file2.wav" increase length (1 sec) and bitrate of output file? Original file is 0:0.558 sec and 88 kbps. Ouput is 0:01.486 and 176 kbps.

- mpv
>active development
>does some things right that a lot of players get wrong
>devs don't care about GUI development at all, so it's near unusable for most people
>all external GUIs are flawed or immature

- MPC-HC
>just werks, if you use Windows
>literally dead
>has no future because it's based on platform-specific deprecated APIs
>needs plugins to get the same features as mpv, but some plugins are more dead than MPC-HC itself (ReClock, XySubFilter)

- VLC
>"just" works
>does a bunch of things wrong or inaccurately, but you won't notice if you're a normie
>no high quality video output or video-based timing at all

Good: mpv, VLC
Bad: anything else

>VLC

Shit, meant to say MPC-HC

Kill yourself retard and don't impersonate me.

>VLC
>good

Prove me wrong. And 3000 codec packs on a deprecated windows-only media player isn't proof.

how can i add a shortcut to mpv so it fastforwards 1min30sec with each press?

...

VLC is the only good one, everything else requires you to waste your time and install other useless shit, fiddle with stupid settings and everything ends up looking the same.

i'm not sure why people keep on saying that mpc-hc is dead. yes, there was an announcement that development had stopped due to lack of developers, but since then several new devs joined up, and it's now more active than ever.

PotPlayer

Where's the mpv general?

I have mpc and vlc, should I pick one over another from now on? Do I go download mpv?

MPC-HC & Foobar

look in the mirror
>impersonate
fucking low key trip fag

MPC-HC, anyone who says otherwise is a retard.

mpv does everything what people used to install media player classic + madVR + xysubfilter + reclock for (plus soon SVP). It can also be used as image viewer (i read manga with it) or audio player.

No longer updating doesn't mean deprecated, idiot.

mpv is the best, but I still use vlc because it's the only thing that can play 1:1 DVD/bluray rips.

VLC unless you are a fucking Sup Forums nerd jacking off to inane bullshit

>it's the only thing that can play 1:1 DVD/bluray rips.
Wut?

I have Video_TS/*.vob folders and ISOs of DVDs with the menus and everything still intact. MPV and most other players don't like this and don't show the menus and generally just act really fucked up. Meanwhile VLC plays them perfectly.

>mpv
gud
>mpc-hc
ded
>vlc
bad

Ooh, i see. I don't even remember the last time i watched DVD, heh.

mpv
>can open local or remote images and videos from basically any website from the terminal, including youtube, twitch, twitter, pomf clone sites, etc.
>can control mpv remotely from the terminal it's spawned from, great for htpc usage
>can open all the usual stuff in playlist format just by putting URLs or file locations into a .m3u file

you better not be skipping OPs/EDs you piece of shit

Bomi or mpc-qt.

Bomi is a fork of mpv which has a far better GUI.

mpc-qt is a libmpv based media player which attempts to recreate the GUI of mpc-hc

>all external GUIs are flawed or immature

Bomi and MPC-QT faggot

Bomi is dead and it pokes at mpv internals in an unsupported way. It also uses a two-year old version of mpv, so you won't get support from the MIA Bomi developer or the mpv developers. The way it uses libmpv also negates most of the benefits of mpv. It has its own NIH version of interpolation, for example, which is not as good as mpv's.

mpc-qt is promising, but incomplete. Even the developer admits this. A lot of functionality in the current build is disabled or non-functional. It would be great if mpc-qt or something like it could expose the full functionality of mpv, but nothing does this yet.

>mfw I was watching an anime with the OP/ED marked as chapters and just added chapter=2-2 to my mpv.conf

Come at me weeb

Someone please tell me why the fuck Sup Forums hates VLC. As far as I am concerned it's easy to install and supports most videos, most that you will use anyway.

Artifacts (pic related)

>supports most videos
Every VLC user says this. Most video players support most video formats, because most of them use libavcodec, which supports most video formats. Format support is basic. The difference between a good video player and a mediocre one involves things like performance, audio-video sync, correct seeking and accurate and high-quality algorithms for colorspace conversion and scaling. VLC sucks at all of this.

VLC is easy to install, but so is MPC-HC (which comes with codecs out-of-the-box these days,) so you have no excuse. madVR and mpv are a bit harder to install (they require extra steps,) but they're not very difficult.

not only are the OPs and EDs one of the best parts of anime, but there are often scenes put in the middle of them or right after them that you'll be missing out on. Shakunetsu no Takyuu Musume had a unique OP each time where they'd put scenes for that episode into the OP.

>MPV
>MPC-HC
>VLC
>Which is the best[?]
None of them.
It's actually MPC-BE.

>and why?
Because unlike MPC-HC, it actually looks good. And also because of thumbnails when hovering the seekbar.

But it's windows only, sadly.

They all plays vids, don't be autistic.
(now worry about which browser renders html better next)

Does it really fucking matter? Its a media player. Just use vlc and get it over with

>use vlc

>thumbnails when hovering the seekbar.
Bomi has this also.

That, combined with the fact that it's multi-plat based on mpv and on Qt would easily make it the best player ever...

>but only if its dev resurfaces or someone else decides to fork and maintain the project.

Does MPV work nicely in a framebuffer?

>>but only if its dev resurfaces or someone else decides to fork and maintain the project.
Besides a minor bug that surfaces when I open the settings dialogue, I don't really see anything else that needs to change about it. It works fine.

What are these complaints about VLC? Does everyone here have a shit PC or something?

regardless of how good your PC is, VLC has a tendency to do this Other media players do not

Bomi is already like 2 years behind mpv, which is under very active development, and can't be used just as a front-end with a normal mpv install.

What's your opinion on mx player anons?

this
because he says so

So? It still plays every video file I throw at it without any issues.

VLC was great until HEVC became a standard. No matter how good your computer is, VLC always struggles to play HEVC files. It also has problems with 7.1 audio.

Proprietary botnet, obviously.

MPlayer, less bloat, works better on te framebuffer.

>MPC

my ride or die
still waiting on scroll preview

>mplayer
>less bloat

mpv > mpc > vlc.
mpv is the future, has best rendering and best ui and best everything. mpc is winshit only and was ok. vlc renders horribly.

MPV is better and works just as good on framebuffer

First drop is mplayer2, second is mpv

I use mpv.
Ive never used mpc-hc but I dont want to see it die so I sorta want more people to use it and autists to start contributin to it..

>something isnt in active development
>oh better uninstall it and find something else
until a new container or codec goes mainstream and you personally need it then there is no reason to stop using something.
if its stable right now then it will be stable in 10 years. idk why fags thing software has an expiration date like milk

I tried VLC and holy shit it's so bad. The interface either has so many missing features or it is hard to configure.
>No on top while playing option
>No fit to windows option
>Doesn't add similar files to playlist
>Doesn't glue when windowed.

I am currently using Potplayer which does all of them and looks good so far. I don't know why VLC can't do these basic things. On top while playing Jesus Christ what were you doing for 15 years?

All 3 of them are good, but I use mpv simply because video looks best on it by default out of those 3.

I don't use VLC now that I use mpv but HOLY SHIT, you are lying.

input.conf

UP seek 90 exact
DOWN seek -90 exact

Patrician Tier: MPC-BE, PotPlayer

Friendless Autism Tier: MPV

Retard Tier: VLC

In conclusion, the best media player so far is Bomi. Good thread Sup Forumsuys.

>Codec packs
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about desu famalam.

mpv
>sane defaults
>cross platform
>configurable
>extensible
>performant

I'm sorry but no, mpv doesn't do anything mpc-hc and madVR do.
For starters the best scaling algorithm mpv supports ootb is lanczos and derivates (haasnsoft comes to mind)
Xysubfilter is meme, mpc-hc already provided decent subs. Reclock isn't completely needed but it's a tiny install desu.

I prefer it this way, superior image quality that mpv hasn't and probably won't ever achieve. It's a shame mpv-hq got scratched.

Both mpc-hc and mpv use libav(ffmpeg) for decoding. Both support image viewing and theorically the same formats.

Old versions all had artifacts, it became a meme.
The player used to do decoding in a very cheap and fast way.
Now it just links ffmpeg afaik, like everyone else.

Still it provides the less quality possible because it doesn't support advanced scaling algorithms.

mpv because...i'm a retard. heheh

mpv for 4life lol

>Best rendering
madVR destroys mpv in video quality.

Bullshit. Ever time I see screenshot comparisons there is no noticeable difference in quality. Take your meme buzzword bullshit and fuck off.

xysubfilter isn't a meme. wthout it MPC is nowhere near libass. ootb is irrelevant when madvr doesn't have support for anything that doesn't come ootb. meanwhile mpv is designed well enough so that most arbitrary meme glsl hooks can be used with it (sssr, krigbilateral, better version of adaptive sharpen, ravu, fsrcnn, etc) without impacting the core.

mpv-hq was never about matching madvr in so-called quality. mpv was always about making a cross platform video player that doesn't have to depend on outdated directshow. when is madshi going to rewrite his shit to support dx11 dx12, or vulkan?