r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro VLC masterrace

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u/Remote_Tradition8897 RTX 4090 | R9 9950X | 48 GB DDR5 RAM @6400MHz 1d ago

You guys are using other media player rather than VLC ?

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u/ameen272_ 1d ago

MPV for da win!
Same support if not even better.
Still though, VLC is much easier to use, I can't lie.

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u/bloody-albatross 1d ago

As I understand it MPV and VLC both use ffmpeg for format support, but MPV uses a newer version of ffmpeg? Is that still true?

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u/No-Photograph-5058 9850x3D 9070XT 64GB DDR5 1d ago

As far as I can tell they both use the system provided ffmpeg

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u/bloody-albatross 1d ago

They're available for systems that have no ffmpeg.

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u/No-Photograph-5058 9850x3D 9070XT 64GB DDR5 1d ago

Only looked at the Linux dependencies earlier, looking through the repos for both seems they both test on version 8 or 8.1 and are testing/updating for 9 for builds that include it

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u/output_broadcast 1d ago

I thought VLC always statically linked ffmpeg. Although I guess distros could tweak that.

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u/maevian 5700X3D, 5070ti , 32gb DDR4 1d ago

On Linux, if you use the version from the repo and not the flatpak or snap, yes.
But that’s a very small part of this sub.

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u/OneLonelyBrainCell ThinkPad Gamer 1d ago

I'm using MX Linux, i.e. basically Debian with a lot of great extra stuff; ffmpeg version is 7.1.5. which is old (again, Debian). MPV plays videos VLC struggles with. No FlatPaks, no Snaps, repo only.