Edit: guys I didn’t made this template, can you please calm down?

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    2·
    11 months ago

    Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:

    mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      If you’re in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don’t specify a video output). It’ll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.

      Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?

      • Tja@programming.dev
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’m sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying “hold my beer” one evening…

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.

  • darthsid@lemmy.world
    0·
    11 months ago

    I’ve not had any disappointing results from VLC. Is there a reason why MPV would be recommended over VLC or MPC-BE?

    • jroid8@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      I have both VLC and MPV and VLC used to take 0.5 second to seek forward while MPV being completely seamless. But I just tested again today and VLC has become seamless too with very minor differences. idk what changed

      Edit: to answer your question I can’t say much other than preferences. I like MPV because it’s minimal, but VLC is good too

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 months ago

        The problem I have with vlc is it’s too minimal. I use the playback settings a lot and there are looping and playlist to enqueue videos. It’s just easier to use and you don’t have to memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for a damn video player.

        • grubders@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          mpv has a video controller on screen and if that isn’t enough, you can use smplayer which is GUI frontend for mplayer & mpv

    • Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      A big reason I use MPV is because of anime. I forget exactly what the reason was back in the day, but I can remember MPV being better at playing certain formats, and fan subs of anime are early adopters of new codecs. In addition, there is a very healthy ecosystem of plugins related to language learning, which again ties back to anime.

      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
        1·
        11 months ago

        Indeed, I love mpv as it can connect to Anki with a plugin and export subtitles with a screenshot and audio directly to it