• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    21 hours ago

    Completely unusable for normal human beings. I use it in combination with yt-dlp and for that it’s nice but as a general purpose media player it’s awful. No graphical interface or settings that are usable without a wiki.

    • Lojcs@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      48 minutes ago

      Is the pseudo gui not enough? And it explains pretty much everything I’d need when ‘H’ is pressed.

      The way I see it you’re either a non-techie that’ll be fine with the on screen controls, or you’re a techie and will discover the various shortcuts yourself or by making a web search.

    • dry_water@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Not really, MPC-QT is a pretty good graphical interface that I’d say is “comparable” with VLC? https://mpv.rocks/ has some decent setup write ups on setting up mpv on windows and linux both.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      20 hours ago

      libmpv is used in a wide variety of user friendly players.

      When people say “use mpv”, its like “use Linux”. Generally speaking you aren’t doing much with the Linux kernel, you need the rest of the tools around it to make it friendly.

      No difference here - grab one of the many players that use mpv under the hood. mpv.net, smplayer, iina, moonplayer, haruna, mpvex, etc, etc.

    • Aibo1@ani.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      20 hours ago

      That is fair. Use it daily on Linux because its so customizable and powerful, but not a plug n play solution.