>>131279
>>131282
this only ever happened if you had an absolute shit box and were trying to playback retarded 10bit anime. Even today very few people have a monitor that can display more than 8bit SRGB. VLC is intended for normal users, which are people using standard formats. It struggles sometimes with weird formats but it will still try to play it no matter what.

MPV's ui is the real nightmare. How do you stop it from closing when the file is done playing? How do you stop it from automatically resizing the window when you add a file with a different aspect ratio than the one playing? These are BASIC ui annoying issues that require googling for a solution and writing a CONFIG FILE. Mystery keyboard shortcuts for basic functions are also not acceptable for normal users. A media player's UI should be easy to understand, if you have to edit configs or read a manual to use something as basic as a media player for standard common use cases then the UI design is a failure.

>>131308
Why would you have an audio track separate from the video file where you are trying to "watch" it in vlc? What other player lets you just add in files to play on top of the existing one easier than VLC?
This is not a standard use case yet vlc still lets you do it via a GUI. Saying VLC has bad ui because your obscure use case isn't ONE CLICK is crazy, you can't do this in mpv without command line launch options.
Which is fine because that use is not standard, even I have a non standard use case that VLC has a solution for which requires command line launch options

VLC isn't perfect but it is perfect 99% of the time for 99% of users.