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Comment by Jabrov

4 hours ago

What's wrong with VLC?

Making such a bold, unsubstantiated claim is a curious item in an otherwise detailed document. I went looking for other explanations and found this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/m1sxjo/it_is_better_mp...

I think it might be one of those classic “everyone should just get good like me” style opinions you find polluting some subject matter communities.

  • Yes, absolutely. The top answer on that Reddit link starts with: "MPV is the ultimate video player on planet earth, all the others are junk in comparison" and doesn't mention VLC at all. That's not a helpful answer, it's just signalling that they're a huge fan of MPV, with nothing to suggest they've ever even tried anything else.

my biggest pet peeve was that VLC was always considered a streamer and treated local files as streams as well. for the longest time, stepping within the video was not possible. reverse play was also a bane as well, even with i-frame only content. i have long found players that are better for me, but still find myself using VLC frequently because it still has features these other players do not.