Off-Topic@Heyuri

i personally dont like the ui but I have nothing against it
in fact I have used it throughout my youth

op is making people up to get mad at

>>131272
Lawl this is a genuine question. I thought maybe it's super bloatware and I didn't know about it.

i think their announcement of native AI to do auto translation is neat, but im skeptical.

to me it feels more bloated than others, thats just an opinion, i dunno lul .

Bcuz circa the late-2000s to mid-2010s, VLC sucked at playing typical anime fansub releases of the era - wrong colors, decoding artifacts and glitches out the ass, butchered typesetting, poor quality upscaling, etc.

It's probably better these days, but its reputation as "the player used by plebs with no standards" lives on in certain places

to this day there's a bunch of weird shit like how if you seek around, playback speed gets thrown off, the start and ends of files are always cut off, if it runs out of CPU time before the next frame has to be drawn for whatever reason, it will skip decoding that frame (if it was a keyframe, you get the famous VLC video glitches lol)

I just use mpv, shit just works. There's almost no UI, but what's there on the OSD lets you do everything you'd want to as a normal person.

mpv FTW!

VLC has an amazing EQ in my opion

It is very buggy, and the UI is a nightmare.

E.g.: to play a video with an external audio stream you'd have to open teh files through this very specific menu (media -> open capture device -> switch to "file" tab -> click "show more options" -> when MANUALLY select teh files...).

There's no way to add an external audio when the media is already playing So you'd have to stop teh playback, and start all over again through that stupid ugly menu.

Like what the actual fuck? In most players it is as easy as a few clicks during the playback (usually something like playback -> audio streams -> add from file).

>>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.

>this only ever happened if you had an absolute shit box and were trying to playback retarded 10bit anime
VLC was already widely derided on /a/ years before the whole 10bit thing started - and mainly because it sucked at softsubs

>MPV's ui is the real nightmare
Indeed - MPC+MadVR 4 lyfe!

>>131312
>this only ever happened if you had an absolute shit box and were trying to playback retarded 10bit anime.
none of the other playback issues need a shit machine, and the video glitching can still happen on a faster one (generally some disk I/O hiccup)
it isn't a truly common event, but it shouldn't happen ever, the result is much worse than a stuttery video
>MPV's ui is the real nightmare. How do you stop it from closing when the file is done playing?
I forgot about this, lol The defaults are shit, I've had it set to loop-playlist=inf for years. Honestly, I suspect the mpv dev team has done so too, lmao.
>How do you stop it from automatically resizing the window when you add a file with a different aspect ratio than the one playing?
same shit as as above, but probably by switching to fullscreen as a normal person doing no config

the rest of the playback controls are on the OSD; anything I've needed a hotkey for was some shit like panning and zooming around the video, and adding a new file to play is a drag and drop, I couldn't tell you any hotkey besides ones I added (like the webm maker plug-in)

actually, that is a lie, I remember the screenshot key, s (´人｀)

>>131313
131313 get

Another accidental GET to add to my collection

>Why would you have an audio track separate from the video file where you are trying to "watch" it in vlc?
It is warez, man. Shit happens. Sometimes you find a good rip, but with some shitty dubbed audio track, so you have to get a good external audio track from the other source. Yes, I can re-create a container with the ffmpeg, sure, but it is an overkill.

>What other player lets you just add in files to play on top of the existing one easier than VLC?
Windows Media Classic, Potplayer.