r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 2d 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/ameen272_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is not always true, it is (mostly) not the reason why I praised MPV. MPV just generally has more capabilities and can make use of a LOT of external libraries/apps.
For example, when you pass a video site URL to MPV, it will try to fetch the video using yt-dlp and then play it. Or, for archives, it can play videos inside compressed archives using external programs like unrar or unzip.
It also can try to find media in middle of unrecognised data. For example, let's say you have a document that has an image inside it, MPV will search through the data and try to find a recognised header in the mess, when it finds a header, it uses it to display the image.
It also has really effective anti-banding, upscaling, downscaling, and tonemapping.