Is there a compelling reason to use mpv over VLC? looks can be deceiving: mpv hides powerful features Should You Switch?
The list quite literally goes on when you run mpv -help in a terminal, showing 445 options, no less. Like VLC, mpv can play internet radio streams, video streams, apply various audio and video filters ‘live’, adjust quality, framerate, do color management, frame timing, interpolation… Bubbling below the austere UI is a veritable NASA dashboard of command line options and advanced configuration capabilities. It’s also just as powerful as VLC but doesn’t put all of the toggles, levers and switches for that power in your face by default. It offers hardware acceleration via FFmpeg, with support for VDPAU and VAAPI (plus DXVA2 on Windows, and VDA and VideoToolbox video on macOS). If you’re looking for a GPU accelerated video player for Ubuntu mpv player is a worthy contender. When playing a video you can wiggle your mouse to access a small OSD controller with a modest set of options: pause, skip, seek, toggle subtitle and audio tracks, and so on.
Most of the time you’ll open the app by double-clicking on a video files, but there is a ‘stock’ GUI if you launch the app traditionally: And mpv does that perfectly.Īnother few pluses (for me, at least) is smooth seek-bar scrubbing, MKV chapter support, subtitle support, and (once again for emphasis) its super speedy start-up times.Īs mpv is primarily a CLI application it lacks a traditional interface (though there are various front-ends available for it). A video payer that opens a video as quickly as possible and keeps out of my way is of more use to me. My video needs extend to playing a video and …Er, that’s it. My main reason behind switching to mpv player is that I wanted a video player that was a little less …there.ĭon’t get me wrong: VLC can look pretty and minimal, like with the Arc theme VLC Skin, but by default, especially on Ubuntu, it’s… a little of its time. Mpv is a free, open-source and cross-platform media player available for Windows, macOS, Linux and even BSD! I’ll skip over the family tree of where MPV comes from (short version: it’s a fork of a fork of mplayer). VLC is open-source, obscenely powerful and plays dang well near everything you chuck at it,īut a few weeks ago I switched to mpv, an alternative to VLC. In fact, if I were to you all what video player you use on Ubuntu I’d be cowered by the collective cry of ‘VLC’!Īnd quite right too. ‘I wanted a video player that was a little less …there’
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