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Michael wrote: |
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> On Sunday, 27 June 2021 19:33:46 BST Dale wrote: |
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>> I thought mplayer was supposed to be the big dog in video players. I |
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>> recall slightly there being a debate about it but I thought mplayer won |
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>> the day. Am I wrong or has things changed since then?? |
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> Random linky says mpv is better: |
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> https://www.slant.co/versus/13972/13973/~mplayer_vs_mpv |
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> From what I recall mplayer doesn’t support VAAPI for hardware acceleration, |
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> but I moved from mplayer to mpv quite a few years now and have not kept up |
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> with mplayer's development. As a matter of fact I had to check mplayer was |
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> still in portage! :-) |
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> Anyway, better informed chattering users express their views here: |
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/43ky44/ |
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> mplayer_mplayer2_mpv_which_one_is_your_choice_and/ |
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When gnome-player finally stops working, I'll switch. I'm afraid to |
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switch right now because it may break gnome-player. It may not even |
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compile anymore basically. I'm testing other players but all of them |
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have their cons, which annoys me. I'm a creature of habit. |
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Thanks for the info. At least now I know. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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